Building Better (Different) Habits
For years, ever since I was first required to be on call, I’ve made it a habit to check my...
2010-06-01
628 reads
Microsoft Announces Robotics Developer Studio 2008 R3
Last week, Microsoft released a slightly improved version of Robotics Developer Studio that supports Visual Studio 2010, and adds the...
2010-06-01
1,474 reads
SQL Lunch Call for Speakers – Quarter 3
One of my quarterly goals is to get speakers for the SQL Lunch webcasts. Q1 and Q2 of 2010 are...
2010-06-01
488 reads
Daily SQL Server 2008 New Feature – Day 13
Hi guys, apologies for the delay with Day 13 – I’ve been sunning myself in the Canaries !
Every day for the...
2010-06-01
402 reads
Pre/Post Cons for the PASS Summit
I woke up this morning to find Kathi Kellenberger disagreeing with Andy Leonard’s blog on picking the pre/post conference speakers....
2010-06-01
535 reads
Why Doesn’t My Audit Track Anything
When you create a server audit, one of the things that might surprise you is that the audit doesn’t record...
2010-06-01
324 reads
Memorial Day
A holiday in the US, commemorating the men and women who have died in the service of our country.
Most...
2010-05-31
1,524 reads
PASS Pre/Post Con Selections
One of my favorite people in the SQL community, Andy Leonard, posted a blog criticizing the selection process for the pre...
2010-05-31
1,780 reads
June Question: What is your best advice for boosting index performance?
Post your responses to the above SQL Aloha Question of the Month in the comments section below (at www.bradmcgehee.com if...
2010-05-31
1,386 reads
Taking A Medical Approach to Performance Troubleshooting
Taking a Medical Approach to Performance Troubleshooting
I find it difficult sometimes to explain to someone how to have a take...
2010-05-31
2,657 reads
Blogs
Narrow Task Decomposition in AI Pipeline Agents
A nightly load into sales_fact fails. Ask an orchestrating agent to break down the...
Car Update: August 2026
By Steve Jones
It’s been some time since I provided a car update, so I decided to...
Microsoft Fabric OneLake Shortcuts: When to Use Them and When Not To
By James Serra
An architecture scenario Imagine separate Sales, Finance, Shared Data, and Executive Analytics workspaces. Sales...
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Searching for my own posts
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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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