The Wiffle-Waffle, or Why I’m Running for the PASS Board of Directors
I’ll announce it here first, along with some reasons why I’m waffling from an earlier post:
I’m going to run...
2010-07-16
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The week that was: Friday 15th July 2010
This is just a short post for a Friday, I have no technical content ready to publish today but lots...
2010-07-16
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Book Review: Rework
I recently read Rework by Jason Fried of 37 Signals ($13 @ Amazon) and it talks about a lot of philosophy...
2010-07-16
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SubQuery Performance
Why would you do this?
select distinct(hostname),
(select count(*) as criticalCnt
from @temp where severity_guid='0168A833-1732-411E-8205-C2F6CD91737D'
and hostname=t.hostname
group by hostname),
(select count(*) as criticalCnt...
2010-07-16
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How Can I Quickly Script Out Replication?
This script takes a distribution server name and an output directory as parameters then works through all publications on each of the servers that connects to the distribution server,...
2010-07-16
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How Can I Quickly Script Out Replication?
This script takes a distribution server name and an output directory as parameters then works through all publications on each of the servers that connects to the distribution server,...
2010-07-16
54 reads
How Can I Quickly Script Out Replication?
I recently finished taking down a bunch of servers that I was using to scale out my environment by forcing...
2010-07-16
519 reads
Free SQL Server Training for the Week of July 19, 2010
This will start a new trend on my blog. Every Friday morning I'll have a blog post covering the free SQL...
2010-07-15
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Curb those Cursors !
With query performance becoming a constant battle, its often a forgotten fact that cursors should be avoided (in the majority...
2010-07-15
689 reads
“One of the Pack to Top Dog”
My first guest editorial published !
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/70725/
Would appreciate any comments you have.
2010-07-15
580 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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