T-SQL Tuesday #136–The Datatype Blog
It’s that time of the month again, and this time it’s an interesting topic. The invitation is from Iceland, where Brent Ozar has relocated for the foreseeable future. I’m...
2021-03-09
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Blog Posts
Daily Coping 8 Mar 2021
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-03-08
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Introducing WordPress Stories: A New Way to Engage Your Audience
Interested in a new way to create and publish engaging content on your WordPress site? Today, we're unveiling our new Stories feature, now available in the WordPress apps.
2021-03-08
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Stellar Toolkit for MS SQL - Software Review
As a SQL database administrator, I am responsible for maintaining our organization's SQL Server and databases. But despite implementing best database maintenance practices, including backups and performing DBCC CHECKDB...
2021-03-08
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Steps for a Successful Data Migration Session at Microsoft Ignite
I hope you’re all enjoying the latest rev of the Microsoft Ignite conference as much as I am. I was going through the content catalog for this year’s conference...
2021-03-08 (first published: 2021-03-02)
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Updated Pluralsight Course – Kubernetes Installation and Configuration Fundamentals
My updated course “Kubernetes Installation and Configuration Fundamentals” in now available on Pluralsight here! If you want to learn about the course, check out the trailer here or if you want to dive right...
2021-03-08 (first published: 2021-03-01)
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Webinar – Building a Proper SQL Server Database Security Model
Tomorrow, March 9, 2020, at 3 PM EST, I will be giving a presentation on how to build a database security model in SQL Server. We’ll primarily focus on...
2021-03-08
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A Biography Template for New Presenters
Presenting is difficult, and you already know that. It is also incredibly rewarding and beneficial to your career, but that’s not important for this post. As difficult as it...
2021-03-05 (first published: 2021-02-28)
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Daily Coping 5 Mar 2021
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-03-05
11 reads
Power BI and a Star Schema
I sometimes get asked from customers if they should use a star schema or should they use one large single table/flatfile for their dataset in Power BI. The answer...
2021-03-05 (first published: 2021-03-01)
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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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