Thoughts on the Student to IT Pro Seminar
Miscellaneous notes as I think on this.
I’ve been reading through feedback from the students. Reading the raw feedback is interesting...
2014-10-06
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SQLAndy
Let’s Create More After Hours Events at the Summit
We’ve got a good handful of events listed for After Hours so far, but couldn’t we have more? A couple...
2014-10-02
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Fixing SCOM After a Hardware Upgrade
Quick note in case I need again some day. The team recently moved all the user databases for a monitoring...
2014-10-09 (first published: 2014-10-02)
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Monday Night Networking Dinner at PASS Summit 2014
For the fifth year Steve Jones and I are organizing the Monday Night Networking Dinner at the PASS Summit. It...
2014-10-10 (first published: 2014-10-02)
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Renewed as MVP for 2015
Took a break to check email and saw the confirmation that I was renewed for another year. Pleasant news for...
2014-10-01
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PASS Voting Extended Until October 14th
The Board of Directors has extended voting in the current election through October 14th. Read the post from President Thomas...
2014-10-07 (first published: 2014-09-30)
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Speaking at Space Coast SQL Users Group on October 10th, 2014
I’ll be driving to Viera for the monthly Space Coast SQL Users Group meeting next week. Topic still to be...
2014-09-30
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Notes On SQLSaturday Orlando #318
Notes from a speaker/volunteer perspective:
It was a lot of fun to talk to the students at our Student to IT...
2014-09-30
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Notes On Our First Student to IT Pro Seminar
This past week we did our first try at the Student to IT Pro Seminar, run concurrently with SQLSaturday Orlando....
2014-10-01 (first published: 2014-09-29)
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SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan–Part 48
This past Saturday we held our eight annual SQLSaturday. I’ll write some notes about the event and post today or...
2014-09-29
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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...
Forums
The Microsoft SQL Year in Review
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T-SQL in SQL Server 2025: The || Operator
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Your Value from a Conference
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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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