T-SQL Tuesday #21 – Bringing Ugly Back
T-SQL Tuesday #21 – Bringing Ugly Back
T-SQL Tuesday #21 - I'm Bringing Ugly Back
This blog entry is participating in T-SQL Tuesday #21,...
2011-08-10
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SQL Server Soldier :: News from the frontlines of the database wars
The Best Part of My New Job
The Best Part of My New Job
Come to the Dark Side, We have Nutter Butters
If you had told me a...
2011-08-04
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Meme Monday: SQL Horoscope: Finding Your Chinese Zodiac
Meme Monday: SQL Horoscope: Finding Your Chinese Zodiac
Chinese Zodiac Figures by Joe Ledbetter
It’s time for July’s Meme Monday post, and...
2011-07-11
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July 21 Data Arch VC Meeting: Gaurav Aggarwal on Microsoft – Readying on “Hadoop”
July 21 Data Arch VC Meeting: Gaurav Aggarwal on Microsoft – Readying on “Hadoop”
Subject:Microsoft – Readying on “Hadoop”Start Time:Thursday, July 21, 2011...
2011-07-11
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July 21 Data Arch VC Meeting: Gaurav Aggarwal on Microsoft - Readying on "Hadoop"
July 21 Data Arch VC Meeting: Gaurav Aggarwal on Microsoft - Readying on "Hadoop"
Subject:Microsoft – Readying on “Hadoop”Start Time:Thursday, July 21, 2011...
2011-07-11
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Misleading Error 1475 While Setting Up Database Mirroring
Misleading Error 1475 While Setting Up Database Mirroring
Wrong Way -->
I was doing some practice work yesterday testing out some mirroring...
2011-07-11
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June Meeting - Data Architecture VC
June Meeting - Data Architecture VC
Data Architecture VC presents Karen López:
Subject:You've Just Inherited a Data Model: Now What?Start Time:Thursday, June 16,...
2011-06-10
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New Whitepaper: Performance Evaluation of Hosting TempDB on FusionIO
New Whitepaper: Performance Evaluation of Hosting TempDB on FusionIO
A colleague I work with on the PQO* Operations SQL V-Team, Jonathan...
2011-05-25
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Getting Fast Counts of Large Service Broker Queues
Getting Fast Counts of Large Service Broker Queues
This question regarding getting a fast count from a service broker queue came...
2011-01-18
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Multi-subnet Failover Clusters
Multi-subnet Failover Clusters
I want to take a closer look at one of the new features in SQL Server Denali. While...
2011-01-17
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T-SQL in SQL Server 2025: The || Operator
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UNISTR Basics
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UNISTR Basics
What does this code return in SQL Server 2025+? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
SELECT UNISTR('Hello 4E16754C') AS 'A Classic';
A: 
B: 
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