MSDN Ultimate Subscription Winner
It’s been a busy week and I haven’t been able to put the time in to picking the winner for...
2010-08-07
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Week in Review - August 8, 2010
This post is the first in a new weekly series meant to give my readers some insight into my week....
2010-08-07
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Windows Azure Platform One Month Pass
According to all of their public pronouncements and the flurry of recent activity, Microsoft seems extremely serious about Windows Azure...
2010-08-06
1,002 reads
SQL Saturday #28 Update
We are just about a week away from probably the biggest FREE training event to ever take place in Baton...
2010-08-06
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Inconsistent NullIF Behaviour ?
NullIf can be a very handy function sometimes. For those who have not used it, if the result of the...
2010-08-06
676 reads
Planning for Maintenance
On Monday, Microsoft released an out-of-band security patch to address the .LNK vulnerability. This affects Windows XP, including Windows XP...
2010-08-06
689 reads
The Inteview is Done
I completed my interview for the PASS board election today. I don’t want to talk about what was in the...
2010-08-06
407 reads
Free SQL Server Training for the Week of August 9, 2010
Monday
SQL Lunch - SSIS Design Patterns 1a: Introduction to SSIS Design Patterns - Andy Leonard
Tuesday
PASS Application Development Virtual Chapter - Where the bl**dy...
2010-08-06
1,221 reads
eReaders - Kindle v Nook v iPad
A friend of my wife’s posted a note asking what people thought of the various devices and which one would...
2010-08-06
1,198 reads
Simple Script to Determine Who To Kill (SPIDs)
I'm mostly working now supporting the building of SSIS packages for ETL. And on one particular project we've been making heavy...
2010-08-06
756 reads
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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