ACID
What’s ACID in databases? I was asked this in an interview a long time ago and I couldn’t remember the...
2010-09-17
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Do You Have Influence? Part 2
I started writing on influence last week and promised some comments on how to build influence and credibility. There are...
2010-09-17
1,358 reads
Index Black Ops Part 2 – Page IO Latch, Page Latch
As I mentioned in my TSQL2sDay index summary post, the I am writing a few posts on the information that...
2010-09-16
3,109 reads
Going to SQL Saturday #46 in Raleigh, NC
So, after a rather hectic few months, I’m finally crawling back out of the hole I’ve been occupying and getting...
2010-09-16
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Denver SQL Server UG September meeting
For the past 1 1/2 years now we’ve been hosting two presentations each meeting. The first presentation is typically a...
2010-09-16
779 reads
See You at SQL Saturday #46 - Raleigh
EDIT: Updated to include a picture of me.
I'm headed up this weekend to speak at SQL Saturday #46 - Raleigh. This...
2010-09-16
827 reads
Rights for one table
I ran across a thread that was asking how to grant rights to a person for one table only, and...
2010-09-16
1,341 reads
Do You Have Influence? Part 1
Most people blog because it’s fun, rewarding, good way to improve writing skills, be cool, and it looks good on...
2010-09-16
1,010 reads
Notes from the Sep 13, 2010 oPASS Meeting
Jack led the meeting tonight, spending a good amount of time on SQLSaturday, and Kendal Van Dyke did his marketing...
2010-09-16
591 reads
Hardware 201:Selecting and Sizing Database Hardware for OLTP Performance
I did a presentation for the fourth hour of 24 Hours of PASS – Fall 2010 today, which was a lot...
2010-09-16
819 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
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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