Presenting to the PASS Database Administration Virtual Chapter
I will be giving a presentation and demo to the PASS Database Administration Virtual Chapter on Wednesday, December 8 2010...
2010-12-02
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SQL Spackle
I previously mentioned how SQL Server Central was listing ideas for articles, primarily for short, quick, pointed articles that they...
2010-12-02
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Clustered index vs Non clustered index
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Clustered and Non clustered indexes are stored in a B – tree structure .
Clustered...
2010-12-02
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Worn Out and Maybe Burned Out
Ever feel worn out and/or burned out? Don’t worry you aren’t alone. As a matter of fact most people have...
2010-12-02
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The Next 24 Hours of PASS
Calling for Presenters!PASS has announced the next 24 Hours of PASS and it will be on March 15 and 16. ...
2010-12-02
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Salary Averages
I saw this posted on Twitter, yet another reason to have a variety of people you follow. Some very interesting...
2010-12-02
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December Question: What does it mean to be a Proactive DBA?
One of the things I promote in all my presentations is the importance of being a proactive DBA. Unfortunately, the...
2010-12-02
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SQL Craft Fair
Have you ever been “dragged” to a long weekend afternoon at a craft fair? Did it look something like this?
This...
2010-12-02
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Processing a Measure Groups Index Using SSMS
As I had mentioned in a previous blog (Creating and processing an Analysis Services partition), instead of processing an entire...
2010-12-02
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iPad Update
I updated the iPad tonight to iOS 4.2. I had no particular reason to upgrade, but I saw a few...
2010-12-01
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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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