Storage Tiers What SQL Server DBAs Need to Know
“One Gerbil, Two Gerbils or Three Gerbils?” is a common DBA joke about server and storage performance. No matter how many gerbils power your storage, you need to know...
2021-01-19
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Blog Posts
Synapse Analytics and .NET for Apache Spark Example 3 - CTE()
The next example is how to do a CTE (Common Table Expression). When creating the CTE I will also rename one of the columns from “dataType” to “x”.
T-SQL WITH...
2021-01-19
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Synapse Analytics and .NET for Apache Spark Example 3 - CTE()
The next example is how to do a CTE (Common Table Expression). When creating the CTE I will also rename one of the columns from “dataType” to “x”.
T-SQL WITH...
2021-01-19
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T-SQL query to find the list of objects referring Linked Servers
T-SQL query to find the list of objects referring Linked Servers
2021-01-19 (first published: 2021-01-13)
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Daily Coping 18 Jan 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...
2021-01-18
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Git in 10 commands to do 99% of gitting and keeping out of trouble
Git is hard, probably harder than it needs to be but I have been using it for about 5 years and have a workflow that works for me. I...
2021-01-18 (first published: 2021-01-12)
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How does Query Store capture cross database queries?
Query Store is a configuration that is enabled per database, and the plans and stats for queries executed in that database are stored in the database itself. So what...
2021-01-18 (first published: 2021-01-11)
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Power BI: Making Date & Time Keys
Saving the Day from Delay Part 2 Creating DateKey and TimeKey columns can be done with built in functions in the Power Query editor. Quick call out, if you...
2021-01-18
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Renaming Files by Padding Numbers with PowerShell
Some time ago I had downloaded all the SQL Saturday XML files. I’ve been meaning to flatten those into a database, but that project keeps getting away from me....
2021-01-18
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Synapse Analytics and .NET for Apache Spark Example 1 - Group By
I have been playing around with the new Azure Synapse Analytics, and I realised that this is an excellent opportunity for people to move to Apache Spark. Synapse Analytics...
2021-01-18
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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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