RTFM365, Week 5
I’m trying to plan out this week better, and come at the RTFM readings with a sense of direction an...
2011-01-07
469 reads
An Artist I’m Not!
One of the gifts my Mom gave my children was a ‘Painting Rocks’ kit. Great marketing, six medium sized rocks,...
2011-01-07
556 reads
Troubleshooting SSRS subscription failures
Of-late one of our SSRS 2005 report subscriptions started to fail regularly with the error message
Failure sending mail: Timeout expired....
2011-01-07
3,043 reads
It’s A Major Award!
“It’s a major award!” That’s what Darren McGavin’s signature role, Mr. Parker, proudly proclaimed to friends and family in the...
2011-01-07
592 reads
The laptop rebuild continues
Not done yet, but I have been slowly patching and installing software over the last few evenings, stuck at my...
2011-01-07
664 reads
SQL Server Index Tuning for Mere Mortals
One of the most important things to measure, monitor, and “get right” for good overall SQL Server OLTP performance is...
2011-01-07
3,477 reads
PASSMN January Meeting Update
Thought I would drop a quick note on the January PASSMN meeting. We’re running a bit behind getting things ramped...
2011-01-06
486 reads
SQLSaturday #62 - Tampa
Hey Folks just a quick reminder that next Saturday January 15th is SQL Saturday 62 in Tampa. If you haven't...
2011-01-06
649 reads
31 Days of SSIS – Recursive SSIS Package (6/31)
31 Days of SSIS
As I mentioned in the introductory post, I’m writing 31 Days of SSIS. In the first post...
2011-01-06
2,562 reads
Date Rounding Tactics and the Tiny Devil of SMALLDATETIME
Tiny Devils
With every new year I think a little bit about time and dates. This posts looks a little more...
2011-01-06
2,415 reads
Blogs
Accept the no and move on
By Brian Kelley
Here is a short emotional intelligence (EI) post for today, courtesy of Seth Godin....
Don’t Fight with AI
By Steve Jones
I was recently trying to handle a simple task with a few AI tools...
Narrow Task Decomposition in AI Pipeline Agents
A nightly load into sales_fact fails. Ask an orchestrating agent to break down the...
Forums
Searching for my own posts
I have a really stupid question... Is there an easy way to search for...
How to Work with On-Premises AI Models to Generate T-SQL Code
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Escaping Strings
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Question of the Day
Escaping Strings
The STRING_ESCAPE() function requires 2 parameters in SQL Server 2025. The first is a string of text and the second is the type of escape rules being used. What are the options for the second parameter?
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