June Midlands PASS Meeting Canceled
We are canceling the June Midlands PASS meeting because the speaker (me) is still under the weather. I'll post in...
2007-06-07
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Blog Posts
Katmai Manageability
The database manages itself. Not totally, but close to it. It was an
analogy made by Dan Jones with cars. Auto...
2007-06-06
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Southern BBQ
Last night I went out with Tony Davis of Simple Talk and Alan White, a
longtime author for both here and...
2007-06-06
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SQL Server 2005 Security
It's a similar theme, off by default if it makes sense, minimize surface area.
Recommendations: for new installs, leave stuff off...
2007-06-06
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Beyond Relational
I missed this yesterday, but I saw it on the schedule again, and I knew
I had to make this one....
2007-06-05
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DBCC Internals
CHECKDB
- needs consistent view of the db. Needs to do this without locking. In
SQL Server 2000 log analysis is used....
2007-06-05
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Maintenance in SS2K5
Andrew Kelley from Solid Quality Learning did this one, which was good.
I was worried it would be about maintenance plans,...
2007-06-05
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Reunion
We're not partners anymore in SQLServerCentral.com, but Andy, Brian,
and myself got together last night for dinner. We haven't seen each
other...
2007-06-05
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SQL Server 2005 Tools
A good talk on the tools from the guy that's responsible for SSMS,
Configuration Manager, Maintenance plans, Surface Area Configuration
Wizard, and...
2007-06-05
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SQL Server Always On
Everyone wants 5 9's of uptime, 24x7 support, and instant fixes for
issues with their database server. Never mind that I'd...
2007-06-05
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Blogs
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...
2025 Wrapped for Steve
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
Forums
The North Star for the Year
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Multiple Escape Characters
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reaching ftp thru winscp but erroring in ssis ftp task connection
Hi, below i show various results trying to reach our ftp site (a globalscape...
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