Pumpkin Tossing
One more holiday post. Hope you all enjoyed Thanksgiving and are now enjoying either a quiet and well deserved day...
2008-11-27
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SQLAndy
Happy Thanksgiving
I'm cheerfully taking the day off today (and tomorrow too!), and I'm writing this a week in advance as I...
2008-11-26
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Spend Money to Make Money
One of those old sayings that has a grain or two of truth to it. Stocks, real estate, education even,...
2008-11-25
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Airlines Don't Care About Customers? Nor Does The Government!
I saw this post about a recent panel that tried to come up with guidelines for airlines as far as...
2008-11-25
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PC Magazine Going out of Print
Saw a post from Michael Miller that PC Magazine will end it's print version with the January issue. Have to...
2008-11-25
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Digging into Replication
It's fun to read good work, and my friend Kendal Van Dyke recently posted How CommitBatchSize And CommitBatchThreshold Affect Replication....
2008-11-24
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PASS Day 5 (Fri)
Friday I was up early for breakfast and check out of the hotel, then down to the convention center to...
2008-11-23
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SQLSaturday #8 Session Evaluations
Session evaluations are one real benefit that speakers derive from participating in community events - a chance to see how they...
2008-11-23
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PASS 2008 Day 4 (Thursday)
I couldn't muster the enthusiasm for a keynote today, so I went for a walk, stopping first for a doughnut...
2008-11-20
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PASS 2008 Day 3 (Wed)
Went to the intro and keynote yesterday, even though I know better. They weren't bad, they just weren't great. I...
2008-11-20
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Blogs
Resetting on the AI hype train
By Brian Kelley
There's a great article from MIT Technology Review about resetting on the hype of...
A New Word: Etherness
By Steve Jones
etherness – n. the wistful feeling of looking around a gathering of loved ones,...
Vibe Coding a Login Tracking System
By Steve Jones
A customer was asking about tracking logins and logouts in Redgate Monitor. We don’t...
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Question of the Day
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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