Notes from the January 2009 oPASS Meeting
We had our first oPASS meeting of the year last week with about 18 attending. Jonathan Kehayias was our featured...
2009-01-21
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Blog Posts
Play the T-SQL Alphabet Game
I recently had the opportunity to play the T-SQL Alphabet Game, which was introduced to me by SQL Server MVP,...
2009-01-21
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Video: xp_cmdshell execution in SQL Server 2005/2008
The video I did for Jumpstart TV on xp_cmdshell execution has hit the front page. Registration on the site is...
2009-01-21
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Conficker / Downadup Worm One More Time
Hopefully by now everyone has seen this, but if not, here's a reminder to continue to spread the details. Denis Gobo...
2009-01-20
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Fake LinkedIn profiles with links to malware
This is a little old (five days based on the last update), but TrendMicro put on their blog about fake...
2009-01-20
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Getting Information Where We Want It
I’ve been running every day, over 100 days in a row now, and one of the things that has helped...
2009-01-20
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Netbooks & Alternatives
A while back I mentioned that Radio Shack had an interesting promotion on a netbook and debated at what price...
2009-01-20
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Networking - Part 3
Continuing the conversation I began in Part 1 & Part 2, today I want to ruminate some more on networking. I've...
2009-01-20
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Kindle Review – How I Read
In the last 4 months of having the Kindle, I’ve gone through a few different ways of reading on it...
2009-01-19
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We Are Microsoft charity challenge
I got the opportunity to participate in the We Are Microsoft Charity Challenge (under the umbrella of GiveCamp) in Dallas...
2009-01-19
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Blogs
The Book of Redgate: Spread across the world
By Steve Jones
This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...
Merry Christmas
By John
Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...
Self-Hosting a Photo Server the Whole Family Can Use
By Bert Wagner
Until recently, my family's 90,000+ photos have been hidden away in the depths of...
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Question of the Day
UNISTR Escape
In SQL Server 2025, I run this command:
SELECT UNISTR('*3041*308A*304C\3068 and good night', '*') as "A Classic";
What is returned? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
A: 
B: 
C: 
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