DDL Triggers and CREATE_LOGIN/ALTER_LOGIN
I've been doing a lot with DDL triggers in the last week or so and pulling out the relevant information...
2007-07-09
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Blog Posts
The Perils of NewID for Randomizing Results
NewID() is commonly used in the order by to return the result set in random fashion. No idea whether its...
2007-07-09
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Wiki For Books Online
Browsing MSDN this morning and saw the note that they now have Wiki support. If done well it could be...
2007-07-09
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Service Packs and Support
More coming next week in editorials and already a note on the site, but support for both SQL Server 2000...
2007-07-07
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Cursors to Increase Performance?
I recently had the chance to look over a friends shoulder at a query that needed some tuning work. In...
2007-07-06
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Latest Service Packs and Books Online
I was reading a new post at SQL Server Magazine titled The More Things Change(full version available to registered users...
2007-07-06
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Midlands PASS Chapter July Meeting with SQL Server MVP Wayne Snyder
SQL Server MVP Wayne Snyder Speaks on SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
Midlands PASS Chapter - July 12, 2007 Meeting
Sponsored by...
2007-07-06
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The Video World
I wonder what you think of this: video shorts. I've gottne the Lockergnome newsletters for years and they've proven interesting...
2007-07-06
604 reads
70-444 Exam Prep Book
I just got my author copies of the Sybex book for exam 70-444 and have to say the book looks...
2007-07-05
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Blogs
One of the suggestions I saw today was to add blogs to the user profile on the site and not...
2007-07-05
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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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Happy Holidays, Let's Do Nerdy Stuff
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UNISTR Escape
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Celebrating Tomorrow
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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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