Come be your best with Pragmatic Works
Have you been trying to figure out how to take your career in Microsoft BI, SharePoint and SQL Server to...
2010-12-10
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SQL Server 2008 R2 System View Map
It’s a map!Have you been looking for something inside the system views of SQL Server 2007 R2 and haven’t known...
2010-12-10
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IT Education Part 2
For those thinking about an IT career the options are bewildering, and I think the education establishment doesn’t do a...
2010-12-10
701 reads
12 Days of SQL, On the 2nd Day of SQL…
Microsoft gave to me, an excellent new management language. Yeah, so it doesn’t rhyme or match the song in any...
2010-12-10
782 reads
SQL Saturday #45 Cancelled
I hate not living up to commitments. It really, really bothers me and I have tried hard in my career...
2010-12-10
649 reads
2 of my favorite new T-SQL features in SQL Server Denali (SQL 11)
Microsoft released the first CTP version of SQL Server Denali during the SQLPASS Community
Summit in Seattle last year. Since this...
2010-12-10
1,449 reads
SELECT TOP 3 SQLBOOKS FROM 2010
This is just a short post for a Friday. This is my list of the Top 3 SQL Server books...
2010-12-10
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Free SQL Server Training for the Week of December 13, 2010
I may end up missing this one next week... it all depends on when the baby comes. 🙂
Tuesday
PASS Application Development...
2010-12-10
1,017 reads
Blog Under Some Repairs
Cracked Up
If you’ve been trying to come to the blog lately, you may have noticed a few errors connecting. Resources...
2010-12-10
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Presenting at PASS AppDev Virtual Chapter
Join me next Tuesday, December 14th at 11:00am CST as I present a webcast on behalf of the PASS AppDev...
2010-12-10
645 reads
Blogs
Narrow Task Decomposition in AI Pipeline Agents
A nightly load into sales_fact fails. Ask an orchestrating agent to break down the...
Car Update: August 2026
By Steve Jones
It’s been some time since I provided a car update, so I decided to...
Microsoft Fabric OneLake Shortcuts: When to Use Them and When Not To
By James Serra
An architecture scenario Imagine separate Sales, Finance, Shared Data, and Executive Analytics workspaces. Sales...
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Searching for my own posts
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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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