GTD: Emergency Scanning versus Processing
Cross-posted from The Goal Keeping DBA blog.
I'm making an earnest effort to work through Getting Things Done in an effort...
2010-08-05
748 reads
Databases – Infrastructure – Security
Free SQL Server Training for the Week of August 2, 2010
Tuesday
PASS Performance Virtual Chapter - Parallelism and Performance - Are You Getting Full Return on Your CPU Investment? - Adam Machanic
Thursday
SQL Lunch - Analysis...
2010-07-30
1,575 reads
Free SQL Server Training for the Week of July 26, 2010
Tuesday
Pragmatic Works - SSIS Management for the DBA - 11 AM EDT - Brian Knight
PASS Application Development VC - The Benefits of SQL Azure...
2010-07-23
805 reads
Free SQL Server Training for the Week of July 19, 2010
This will start a new trend on my blog. Every Friday morning I'll have a blog post covering the free SQL...
2010-07-15
745 reads
Pruning the Blog List
I went through the exercise months ago where I tried to re-organize my blog reading to be more efficient at...
2010-07-15
840 reads
SQL Lunch Presentation Today and Wednesday
A heavy week for SQL Lunch with two presentations!
There is another SQL Lunch presentation scheduled for today at 12:30 EDT. Join...
2010-07-12
569 reads
SQL Lunch Presentation Today
I'm going to try and do a better job of announcing free training and learning opportunities. With that said, there's...
2010-07-08
706 reads
Visual Studio 2010 Giveaway - The Winners and the Answers
All three licenses of Visual 2010 Ultimate with MSDN have been claimed, and here are the winners:
John Pertell (twitter | blog)Jeff...
2010-07-07
628 reads
VS 2010 Ultimate with MSDN Giveaway - Completed!
UPDATE: The three licenses have been claimed!
Like other MVPs and Regional Directors, I've got three licenses of Visual Studio 2010...
2010-07-07
865 reads
Before You Begin Auditing...
There is a fine line between auditing and attacking. The line actually is one built based on authorization. Same tools,...
2010-07-06
949 reads
Blogs
Resetting on the AI hype train
By Brian Kelley
There's a great article from MIT Technology Review about resetting on the hype of...
A New Word: Etherness
By Steve Jones
etherness – n. the wistful feeling of looking around a gathering of loved ones,...
Vibe Coding a Login Tracking System
By Steve Jones
A customer was asking about tracking logins and logouts in Redgate Monitor. We don’t...
Forums
The Microsoft SQL Year in Review
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T-SQL in SQL Server 2025: The || Operator
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Your Value from a Conference
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Question of the Day
UNISTR Basics
What does this code return in SQL Server 2025+? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
SELECT UNISTR('Hello 4E16754C') AS 'A Classic';
A: 
B: 
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