MVP Chat
My first MVP chat was today, a monthly hour long session where we have a Microsoft representative and we all...
2008-01-17
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Blog Posts
Partitioning Part 4 Posted on SSC
Partitioning Part 4 concludes the series with a look at 'real' partitioning in SQL 2005 Enterprise Edition. Overall the series...
2008-01-17
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The Interviewer is Wrong
Michael Coles had an interesting post about a job interview a friend went on. The person answered questions correctly, but...
2008-01-17
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Sun Acquires MySQL
Just posted on Jonathan Schartz's blog. They've definitely been playing more in the open source arena, now they've got a...
2008-01-16
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Two Acquisitions of Note
Saw both of these on ComputerWorld:
Oracle buying BEA
Sun buying MySQL
It'll be interesting to see how this changes the...
2008-01-16
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Upcoming Presentations
I'll be attending the South Florida Code Camp on Feb 2 and also SQLSaturday Tampa on Feb 16th. For both...
2008-01-16
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Covert It Live
I watch the Geekbrief update a few times a week, partially to see new gadgets and partially to see how...
2008-01-15
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SQL Server 2005 Replication bug?
Last week, in our production, we noticed some records are missing in the subscriber side while existing on the publisher...
2008-01-15
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E-Readers, Will They Ever Take Off?
I was discussing the Kindle recently with business partner Steve Jones and while we both like the idea of having...
2008-01-14
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Hot Subtract
Over the last few weeks I've seen a few posts about the new Hot-Add CPU feature in SQL Server 2008....
2008-01-14
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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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UNISTR Escape
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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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