I’m doing a little series on some of the nice features/capabilities in Snowflake (the cloud data warehouse). In each part, I’ll highlight something that I think it’s interesting enough to share....
2025-03-31 (first published: 2025-03-17)
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This may or may not be helpful in the long term, but since I’m doing it to be super cautious, I figured I would blog about it. We migrated...
2025-03-31 (first published: 2025-03-14)
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zverism – n. the wish that people could suspend their civility and indulge in the physical side of each other first, sniffing each other’s hair like dogs, staring unabashedly...
2025-03-28
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I’m not looking for a job, but I ran across an article about using AI tools for a job search. So I decided to try it out. I followed...
2025-03-28 (first published: 2025-03-17)
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EightKB is back! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is back in 2025…it’s all happening on August the 21st! We’ve open our call for speakers, you can submit...
2025-03-28 (first published: 2025-03-17)
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Core skills depends on the position, but the point is that ensuring you have a strong foundational base for your chosen area is better than reaching for emerging skills.
2025-03-28
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The Source Control Dilemma Every DBA has been there. Trying to keep track of database schema changes while developers have their fancy Git repositories and version control workflows. Meanwhile,...
2025-03-27
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I received a sobering reminder this week of a lesson we all have learned or should have learned long ago. Something I said online came back around months later...
2025-03-26 (first published: 2025-03-17)
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IT leaders have a lot on their plates! Budgets, staffing, security, uptime, and keeping everything running smoothly. When SQL Server performance becomes an issue, a common reaction is often...
2025-03-26 (first published: 2025-03-13)
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Often we find out about a problem reported by a customer after the incident has passed. This might be from a trouble ticket or even an email that we...
2025-03-24
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By Steve Jones
If someone is trying to convince you it’s not a pyramid scheme, it’s a...
By Steve Jones
I was looking back at my year and decided to see if SQL Prompt...
In the era of cloud-native applications, Kubernetes has become the default standard platform for...
Hi experts, I have a 3+ TB database on a 2019 sql server which...
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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