T-SQL Tuesday #124–Query Store in Action
Today is T-SQL Tuesday #124 and I’m dropping a quick post as I’ve had lots of other stuff to do since returning from my sabbatical. Tracy Boggiano is the...
2020-03-10
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Blog Posts
Let’s Call It What It Is: Complexity Debt
Technical debt get deprioritized too often because business sees the word, “technical.” It doesn’t matter what the true meaning is. And it’s a big problem. It really needs proper...
2020-03-09 (first published: 2020-03-02)
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Query Store, Plan Forcing, and DROP/CREATE
I absolutely love Query Store and the ability it provides to force a plan is amazing. However, there are a lot of little gotchas in this functionality. I just...
2020-03-09 (first published: 2020-03-02)
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A trusty old friend – The BCP utility
One of the requirements that springs up around data stores – regardless of if they are relational, not relational, cloud based or some other variety is (unsurprisingly) the need...
2020-03-08
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Notes from SQLSaturday Tampa 2020
The notes! Attendance was the speaker dinner was great! Always nice to have a lot of people there. During the day logistics all went well, though it’s still a...
2020-03-08
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Thanks for joining us at SQLSaturday Baton Rouge 2020 Business Intelligence edition
Thanks for joining us at the first annual SQLSaturday Baton Rouge Business Intelligence yesterday, put on by the Baton Rouge Analytics and Intelligence Network (#GOBRAIN!), an official chapter of...
2020-03-08
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ASF 029: Tomaz Kastrun interview
Introduction Tomaž Kastrun is BI & DEV developer, data analyst & data science. With more than 15 years of experiences in the field of databases, business warehouses and development,...
2020-03-06 (first published: 2020-02-28)
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Changing How I Write Abstracts
Sometimes a swift kick in the rear is needed to become motivated. Recently, I was the recipient of the business end of a boot and it drove me to...
2020-03-06
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Setting 2020 Learning Goals
I deliberately didn’t set any goals at the start of 2020 since I was taking six weeks off for a sabbatical. That’s done, and it’s time to look forward....
2020-03-06 (first published: 2020-03-02)
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The four tenets of ETL testing
Every ETL pipeline is only ever as reliable as the data that the upstream system provides. It is inevitable that assumptions you make about the data you are provided...
2020-03-06
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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