IT Education Part 1
Like many in IT I’m self taught, starting with DOS and batch files, then proceeding through QuickBasic, Visual Basic in...
2010-12-06
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SQLRally Call for Presenters
Go SQL! Go SQL! I haven’t blogged about it until now. If you weren’t aware, there’s a new conference in...
2010-12-06
378 reads
Review: Idera SQL Doctor
Recently, a co-worker practically slammed me up against the wall, exclaiming “You have to check out this new tool, right...
2010-12-06
2,606 reads
Moving Windows in Windows 7
I had my laptop connected to a projector recently, and for some reason a few windows got moved off screen,...
2010-12-06
567 reads
My Weekend
We are now well into December and Christmas is fast approaching, I have most, but not all of my shopping...
2010-12-06
521 reads
Consolidation
I’m about to go down one laptop, which is good. I have had too many for some time. Right now...
2010-12-06
398 reads
The Basics of Troubleshooting
After seeing several cases in the past couple of months where I felt the basics of troubleshooting were violated, I...
2010-12-06
2,225 reads
Digg
I’m currently doing some experiments with ,y blog and trying out digg.com. In order to do that I need to...
2010-12-05
528 reads
What happens when a query is submitted?
I know, We cant cover life span of query in short. here is my another try to list some high level information...
2010-12-05
5,439 reads
What PASS means to me.
I first heard of PASS (Professional Association for SQL Server) in connection with the PASS Summit. I had a several...
2010-12-04
355 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...
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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