SQL MCM Training – Day 1
Today was my first day of SQL MCM training here in Bellevue. We started at 08:30am
and now (05:30pm) Kimberly is...
2011-08-09
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Klaus Aschenbrenner
SQL MCM Training – Day 0
For the next 3 weeks I'm in Bellevue/WA for the SQL MCM training provided by Paul
Randal, Kimberly Tripp, and Bob...
2011-08-08
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My SQLbits sessions
Since today its official, I'm presenting 2 sessions at the SQLbits conference in Liverpool
(http://www.sqlbits.com) from September 30 –
October 1. Here...
2011-08-03
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My upcoming speaking engagements
A few days ago I had an interesting conversation on Twitter about my upcoming speaking
engagements. I really realized at this...
2011-07-26
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How my SQL Server trainings helped Hannes and his company to improve their SQL Server based software
In the last months I have done a lot of SQL Server consulting engagements where I
have seen the craziest performance...
2011-07-05
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The mystery of the NULL bitmap mask
In today's weblog post I want to talk about the NULL bitmap mask and some mysteries
that you can encounter with...
2011-06-29
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Replaying workloads with the RML Utilities
In today's weblog posting I want to talk about replaying SQL Server workloads with
the RML Utilities. RML Utilities stands for...
2011-06-21
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My SQLPASS session
Yesterday we got confirmation from SQLPASS if our submitted sessions for the upcoming SQLPASSS
summit in Seattle (October 11 – 14) were...
2011-06-16
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SQLcruise review
The most amazing journey that I have done in the past years was definitely SQLcruise
(see http://www.sqlcruise.com) – a SQL Server
event organized...
2011-06-12
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Slides & samples from my DevConnections sessions
As announced in both of my SQL Server sessions at DevConnections in Karlsruhe/Germany
you can find here the slides & samples for...
2011-06-10
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Blogs
Advice I Like: Pyramid Schemes
By Steve Jones
If someone is trying to convince you it’s not a pyramid scheme, it’s a...
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...
Forums
Database file shrink issue.
Hi experts, I have a 3+ TB database on a 2019 sql server which...
The North Star for the Year
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The North Star for the...
Multiple Escape Characters
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Multiple Escape Characters
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