Daily SQL Server 2008 New Feature – Day 24
Every day for the next couple of weeks, I aim to highlight one of SQL Server 2008’s new features, simply...
2010-06-16
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I’d buy an iPhone4, but ….
I don’t trust ATT.
That’s saying something. AT&T, the company that built US telco, that gave us innovations from Bell Labs,...
2010-06-16
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Leaders in Meetings
As the owner of a meeting/discussion you have two options on how to drive the conversation, and which you use...
2010-06-16
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A Strange Twist in my life
As the plane was landing the other day for SQL Saturday in Pensacola, I was struck by how amazing my...
2010-06-16
799 reads
Building HTML Emails With SQL Server and XML
Building HTML Emails With SQL Server and XML
I’ve written a lot of custom reports in my days that output data...
2010-06-15
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Insert Unknown Row to Dimension Table
When building a warehouse there is a common practice of adding an Unknown row to the Dimension tables. For me,...
2010-06-15
1,428 reads
Hawaii is Not Prometric Microsoft Certification Test Friendly
While I was at TechEd last week, I got a 50% off Microsoft Certification test voucher that expires on June...
2010-06-15
1,497 reads
Building A Remote Desktop Manager Connection List
Remote Desktop Connection Manager or RDCMan is a free download from Microsoft for managing multiple remote desktop connections. The functionality...
2010-06-15
2,317 reads
Sarasota SQL Server Users Group
Tonight I’m presenting for the Sarasota SQL Server Users Group. If you’re interested in attending, you can join in using...
2010-06-15
712 reads
The Value of an Artist
A short while ago someone complained that some of the headlines on SSC were deceiving in terms of what they...
2010-06-15
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Blogs
Accept the no and move on
By Brian Kelley
Here is a short emotional intelligence (EI) post for today, courtesy of Seth Godin....
Don’t Fight with AI
By Steve Jones
I was recently trying to handle a simple task with a few AI tools...
Narrow Task Decomposition in AI Pipeline Agents
A nightly load into sales_fact fails. Ask an orchestrating agent to break down the...
Forums
Searching for my own posts
I have a really stupid question... Is there an easy way to search for...
How to Work with On-Premises AI Models to Generate T-SQL Code
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Escaping Strings
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Question of the Day
Escaping Strings
The STRING_ESCAPE() function requires 2 parameters in SQL Server 2025. The first is a string of text and the second is the type of escape rules being used. What are the options for the second parameter?
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