Customer Satisfaction Survey Results
In the last couple of months, we sent our first customer satisfaction survey to all our customers. We collected the...
2017-11-18
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Guy Glantser
What is the Role of the UPDATE Lock in SQL Server?
The most common types of locks in SQL Server are the SHARED (S) lock and the EXCLUSIVE (X) lock. The...
2017-11-18
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Something Cool We Learned Today!
We have many customers, and we work on lots of projects. Each project is different in so many ways: the...
2017-11-16
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Can I pause or resume an index rebuild operation?
One of the cool new features in SQL Server 2017 (and currently also in public preview in Azure SQL Database)...
2017-11-16
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Why I Believe in the Data Architecture Review
We have a solution called Data Architecture Review. With this solution, we conduct a complete review of the customer’s data...
2017-10-31 (first published: 2017-10-23)
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Customer Satisfaction Survey
We decided to create a customer satisfaction survey and send it to all our customers. The goal of this post...
2017-09-01
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Working with Very Large Tables
Recently I presented an online session with the title “Working with Very Large Tables Like a Pro in SQL Server 2016”....
2017-08-14 (first published: 2017-07-26)
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What Do You Do When Performance Sucks?
So you are a SQL Server DBA, and you are responsible for a database, which gives you a hard time....
2017-05-16
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My Session about SQL Server Parameterization
Last month I presented a session in the wonderful GroupBy online conference about SQL Server parameterization. The title of the...
2017-05-10
557 reads
Availability Group on SQL Server 2016
The Challenge
One of our clients in the gaming industry wanted to set up a high availability solution in their data...
2017-02-01
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The Book of Redgate: Spread across the world
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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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