Buy a $10 Raffle Ticket to Help Katie
Not a happy story, but if you've got a child I suspect it will be easy to decide to buy...
2007-07-12
1,388 reads
SQLAndy
Wiki For Books Online
Browsing MSDN this morning and saw the note that they now have Wiki support. If done well it could be...
2007-07-09
600 reads
The Perils of NewID for Randomizing Results
NewID() is commonly used in the order by to return the result set in random fashion. No idea whether its...
2007-07-09
905 reads
Cursors to Increase Performance?
I recently had the chance to look over a friends shoulder at a query that needed some tuning work. In...
2007-07-06
714 reads
70-444 Exam Prep Book
I just got my author copies of the Sybex book for exam 70-444 and have to say the book looks...
2007-07-05
731 reads
Debugging Stored Procedures in VS 2005
My friend and former co-worker Chris Rock just posted at article over at SQLTeam.com that has a pretty good walk...
2007-06-27
1,365 reads
Celko Cites Steve Jones
I'm at the bookstore today alternating some work with some professional development time and was reading some of Celko's SQL...
2007-06-20
1,413 reads
GO More than Once?
SSC had a fairly routine article up recently about The GO Command the Semi Colon Terminator which I read, and...
2007-06-18
1,370 reads
Tampa Code Camp 2007
Web site just went live for this year. Brian & I both presented sessions last year and we're planning to go...
2007-06-12
1,342 reads
Mirrored Backups Posted on SSC
This was fun to run through, nice to see MS adding features even if in my view they didn't quite...
2007-06-12
1,326 reads
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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