[Off-Topic] Looking Beyond the Technology
I've been quiet as of late, pretty much ever since i went to Bethany Summer Youth Camp (BSYC) as a...
2009-07-15
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Databases – Infrastructure – Security
Best Thing I Learned at PASS Summit
If you haven't heard, PASS is running a contest where you could win conference registration to this year's PASS Community...
2009-06-19
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Mentors and Perspective
We had my organization's semi-annual combined IT and financial meeting this morning. At the end of these meetings awards and...
2009-06-12
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Planning for a Disaster
Early last week, my church suffered a lightning strike that did quite a bit of damage (relatively speaking) to computer and...
2009-06-11
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Switching to Bing
When the announcement for Bing came out, I didn't immediately go over and check it out. As a matter of...
2009-06-08
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Balancing Priorities
This one isn't a technical post, but it's entirely appropriate to those of us in the IT field. Today was a...
2009-06-02
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Security Basics: Understanding the Surface Area
When it comes to securing a system, it's important to understand how it might be attacked. That's what surface area...
2009-06-01
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Security Basics: Applying the Principle of Least Privilege Properly
Whenever I do a security presentation, I make sure to cover the Principle of Least Privilege. And when I do...
2009-05-29
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Why I Say Something about Running as Administrator
On a couple of recent webcasts, I pointed out the folks were running with the local Administrator account. To start...
2009-05-28
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Catalog view: sys.tcp_endpoints
I was playing around with the endpoint catalog views this afternoon just looking at ways to do poor man's configuration...
2009-05-27
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Blogs
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...
4 CPE Opportunity (Virtual) for Charity
By Brian Kelley
Every year, the South Carolina State Internal Auditors Association and the South Carolina Midlands...
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T-SQL in SQL Server 2025: The || Operator
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UNISTR Basics
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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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