Workload replay with WorkloadTools
In my last post, I described how to capture a workload to a file, in order to run a replay against your target environment at a later time. Well,...
2019-07-08 (first published: 2019-06-20)
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Blog Posts
Last Week Reading (2019-07-07)
Hello, data eaters! Today, coming back from my friend by car, I was browsing a few posts on my cell (calmly – my wife was driving). At some point,...
2019-07-07
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Comparing Execution Plans
When you run a query twice, and get dramatically different run times, your first step can be to try to identify the differences in execution plans. For many that...
2019-07-05 (first published: 2019-06-19)
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Microsoft MVP #2
It is always a dark art trying to suss out why he/she is an MVP? Do they deserve it? What does it take? Why can’t I get it? The...
2019-07-05
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SQL Engine basics: Caching data
SQL Server engine does an excellent job to optimize query performance and it has different methods to achieve this goal, one of these methods is the data caching.Data caching...
2019-07-05
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Taxing Travels
It was a long weekend of travel for me not too long ago, starting at 4:30am on Friday and ending at 7:30pm Sunday night. This was for SQL Saturday...
2019-07-05
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Using the Announcement/News Part of SQLSaturday
One of the interesting but not often used features of the SQLSaturday tools is the announcement/news (in the admin tools, its Message Center | Announce News) to do mini-blog...
2019-07-05 (first published: 2019-06-15)
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Where do you do your database development? Hopefully not production
Here are three scenarios, if you work with SQL Server either as a provider of database environments (DBA) or a consumer of database environments for your application (developer) then...
2019-07-05
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Where do you do your database development? Hopefully not production
Here are three scenarios, if you work with SQL Server either as a provider of database environments (DBA) or a consumer of database environments for your application (developer) then...
2019-07-05
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Why I Take Pictures at Conferences
Why do I take pictures of screens at conferences? Let me count them up for you! Read on...
2019-07-05
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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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