Check Authentication Scheme (Kerberos) on SQL Server 2005
I had to redo SPNs today because we swapped out service accounts on some of our non-production SQL Servers. I...
2008-08-07
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Blog Posts
SQL Server 2008 RTM - Community Thoughts & Resources
As has widely been announced in the SQL Server community, SQL Server 2008 has RTM'ed. It's now available for download...
2008-08-07
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Negotiating - It's Not All About Winning
More and more I see business people adopt the mindset that any negotiation is raw combat with the goal of...
2008-08-05
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Free SQL Sticker from Paul Nielsen
A little while ago Paul Nielsen tweeted about having free Euro-style SQL stickers. All one had to do was email...
2008-08-04
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Great Read on the Difficulty of Computer Security
The SANS Internet Storm Center has a great handler post about working at the Abuse department for an ISP:
Securing a...
2008-08-04
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Kindle Update - August
Apparently the Kindle is a great success, financially, for Amazon. That's good to hear, though I haven't made the decision...
2008-08-04
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Moving TempDB Posted on SQLServerCentral.com
Moving Tempdb isn't a common operation, and mercifully a simple one if it comes to that. As in much of...
2008-08-04
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Tool Review: Snarfer
I'm probably in the minority, but I use an offline reader for consuming feeds. Nothing wrong with browser based readers other than that...
2008-08-04
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oPASS Meeting Tomorrow Night (Aug 5, 2008)
We've got two technical sessions scheduled for tomorrow night. The first is by long time oPASS member Dolores Tofel discussing...
2008-08-03
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Cold backup and remote control of sql server services
I recently got a request to do a "cold" backup of a small yet complex db environment, I say "small" because...
2008-08-02
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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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