Poor Little Misunderstood Views
Some people love ‘em, some people hate ‘em. But, one thing I have found to be nearly universal is that...
2010-07-29
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Finding Key Lookups In Cached Execution Plans
Ask anyone with performance tuning experience to list the most expensive operations in an execution plan and it's a safe...
2010-07-29
5,364 reads
SQL Bits 7 – Registration is Open !
Registration is now open for SQLBits—The 7 Wonders of SQL Conference !!
This year its in York (Sept 30th till October 2nd).
SQLBits is...
2010-07-29
1,490 reads
Pesky Protected Mode
How many of you keep falling for this one…You open up Report Manager for a user that you know you...
2010-07-29
1,482 reads
The Killer Backslash in TSQL
--it is
quite startling to see that this, in TSQL, executes.
Select \
/*
---------------------
0.00
(1
row(s) affected)
so does
this....
*/
Select null /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
/*
---------------------
NULL
(1
row(s) affected)...
2010-07-29
5,821 reads
Interviewed by Andy Leonard
Last year Brent Ozar interviewed all the candidates for the PASS Board of Directors. I think it went over pretty...
2010-07-29
1,914 reads
Ambiguities and the wild object.oriented brigades
--Whilst trying to design a more effective way of detecting dependencies in a SQL Server database, I was mulling over...
2010-07-29
2,017 reads
Log Shipping By Abi Chapagai (Revised)
Log Shipping By Abi Chapagai (Revised)
In SQL Server, transaction log provides an ability to recover a database to a point...
2010-07-29
2,388 reads
Help Build the SQLRally Speaker/Topic Selection Process – Part 1
Last week we announced PASS SQLRally, the new event that we’ll be holding in May 2011 in Orlando (aka the...
2010-07-29
705 reads
SQLSaturday #40 is Almost Here – July 31, 2010
I’ll be leaving Friday morning with my family to go to Miramar, Fla, for the 2nd annual SQLSaturday there. I’m...
2010-07-29
528 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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How to Work with On-Premises AI Models to Generate T-SQL Code
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Escaping Strings
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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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