Building the SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 22
Had our second planning meeting, still trying to complete the email template and realized we had not clearly defined two...
2014-07-15
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SQLAndy
SSC Editorial: Infect Your Colleagues with the Learning Bug
If you work with colleagues that aren’t as interested in growing and learning as you are, I hope you’ll read...
2014-07-14
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Some Ideas for Meeting Sponsors
Most PASS Chapter meetings are supported by sponsors who either provide money which is often used for food and drink,...
2014-07-14
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Free Ebooks From Microsoft
Probably you’ve heard about it already, but a quick post just in case – you can download a 100 or so...
2014-07-11
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Notes from the July 2014 ONETUG Meeting
Rained as I left (early) for the meeting, confirming again why I always leave early – stuff happens (in Orlando, rain...
2014-07-11
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SSIS Column Export-Question of the Day
An SSIS question! How’s that for a change of pace? SSIS Column Export is, as you might well surmise, about...
2014-07-09
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A Few More Thoughts on Summit Session Selection & Growing Speakers
Last week ended up better than expected when PASS decided to release feedback to speakers (selected or not) who requested...
2014-07-09
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Editorial: Cloud Skills
Cloud Skills is the editorial today, thinking about the changes we see in the boxed product versus the cloud and...
2014-07-07
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Project Moriarty
This past weekend I started writing notes for what I’m calling Project Moriarty, what I hope will be five questions...
2014-07-07
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Feedback on My Abstracts
Here’s the raw feedback from my submissions for the Summit. To those who wrote the feedback for me (and all...
2014-07-03
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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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