Are All Meetings Bad?
I was mildly amused by my friend Steve Jones blog post Finding a Direction about not really wanting to spend...
2008-03-06
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Blog Posts
SQL Server Data Services Announcement (Competitor to Amazon SimpleDB)
Mary Jo Foley reports that MS is signing up testers for a hosted SQL Server solution called SQL Server Data...
2008-03-06
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Finding a Direction
I'm not a bg fan of long meetings. I used to try and plan an hour a week staff meeting...
2008-03-04
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Orlando Code Camp 2008 - Registration & Call for Speakers is Open
My friend Shawn Weisfeld is expecting more than 400 attendees at Orlando Code Camp this year. There will be at...
2008-03-04
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Compression
SQL Server 2008 brings with is a new set of features involving compression. At first I was assuming this was...
2008-03-03
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The Fun of Blogs
If you look at my blog roll Jeff Dunntemann is one of the ones recommend. Nothing about SQL Server there, but he...
2008-03-03
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SQL 2008 Schedule Slippage and SQL 2005 SP3
I've read with interest some of Steve's editorials about SQL 2005 SP3 and in large part agree with him that...
2008-03-02
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Documentation Value Formula (Part I)
As a DBA, documentation work is unavoidable, we need to do documentation about things we have done, for example, what...
2008-03-01
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New DBA type: Test DBA
In DBA world, usually two types of DBA are defined depending on what a DBA is focusing on, i.e. development DBA...
2008-02-29
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New Benchmarks
There are new TPC-E benchmarks available for SQL Server 2008. And it's not even out!!!!
The 3rd place, the IBM entry,...
2008-02-28
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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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