Looking for Incremental Improvements
If you've read my blog much you'll know that I'm deeply involved in trying to figure out how to build...
2008-05-01
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Blog Posts
Technorati
I've never really been a big fan of many of the aggregation sites. As such I have never really used...
2008-05-01
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The Post Count
One of the things that I made a conscious effort to do last summer was make a regular effort to...
2008-05-01
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Review of Pro SQL Server 2005 High Availability
I grabbed Pro SQL Server 2005 High Availability by Allan Hirt recently to add to the library and I've been...
2008-04-30
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Building Raffle Tickets for SQLSaturday
Raffle tickets have become a mainstay of our events, making it easy to handle the large volume of items donated...
2008-04-29
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Mentoring
I've never been much of a mentor to people, partially not having the chance, partially focusing too much on myself,...
2008-04-29
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More on Mentoring
Two weeks ago I did five posts on mentoring, and based on that I received a couple interesting notes, here...
2008-04-28
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SQLSaturday #3 Jacksonville - Final Reminder!
Just checked the registrations and we're at 354, with plenty of room for more! Brian has been busy tweaking the...
2008-04-28
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Visiting the Space Coast .Net Users Group in June
My friend Ken Tucker invited me to speak on June 11, I'll be doing a short presentation on SQL performance...
2008-04-28
1,566 reads
Gotta love the Information Age
First it was CNN 24x7. Next the Internet brought us live information from around the globe.
Now this... real-time pizza tracking...
2008-04-27
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Blogs
Advice I Like: Pyramid Schemes
By Steve Jones
If someone is trying to convince you it’s not a pyramid scheme, it’s a...
Using Prompt AI for a Travel Data Analysis
By Steve Jones
I was looking back at my year and decided to see if SQL Prompt...
FinOps for Kubernetes: Leveraging OpenCost, KubeGreen, and Kubecost for Cost Efficiency
In the era of cloud-native applications, Kubernetes has become the default standard platform for...
Forums
Database file shrink issue.
Hi experts, I have a 3+ TB database on a 2019 sql server which...
The North Star for the Year
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Multiple Escape Characters
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Question of the Day
Multiple Escape Characters
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code (in a database with the appropriate collation):
SELECT UNISTR('%*3041%*308A%*304C%*3068 and good night', '%*') AS 'A Classic';
What is returned? See possible answers