A Question From The NomCom
One of the many things we’re discussing going into the 2014 PASS election is what the planned two official campaign...
2014-07-25
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SQLAndy
How To Get The Boss To Pay For Training
How do you get the boss to pay for training? In my experience you have to:
Ask. The boss isn’t sitting...
2014-07-31 (first published: 2014-07-24)
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Building the SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 25
Just the chart today. We’re considerably ahead of previous year registrations for the same number of weeks out. I’m looking...
2014-07-23
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Building the SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 24
We’re at 180 registered so far and we haven’t published the schedule yet! So far so good. We’re on track...
2014-07-22
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SQLSaturday Orlando–A Message From Last Year Revisited
I was doing some work on the marketing for SQLSaturday Orlando and looked back at the messages we sent last...
2014-07-18
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SSC Editorial: What Is the Hardest Feature to Learn About SQL Server?
I wrote What Is the Hardest Feature to Learn About SQL Server? not really knowing what answer to expect. So...
2014-07-18
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SSC Editorial: Access Disdain
Contrary to the title (by design), Access Disdain is about not automatically hating Access (or it’s users). Clearly Access has...
2014-07-17
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SQL Speakers–Will You Accept The Chapter Challenge?
Most SQLSaturday’s do ok when it comes to finding speakers, the results of an incredible speaker mailing list and a...
2014-07-18 (first published: 2014-07-16)
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Presentation to the Baltimore SQL Group on July 15, 2014
I did an online presentation about PCI and Credit Card Security for BSSUG last night and it went pretty well,...
2014-07-16
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Building The SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 23
Here’s the latest update on our registrations. We’re still ahead of all our previous events, that’s good, and we’re 2...
2014-07-16
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Resetting on the AI hype train
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A New Word: Etherness
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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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