SQL Server & Containers – Part Two
This post follows on from SQL Server & Containers – Part 1 and will go through how to build custom container images.
Since...
2016-11-23
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The DBA Who Came In From The Cold
Monday Coffee 2016-11-21
Well there were quite a few announcements in the SQL Server world last week.
SQL Server vNext CTP was made...
2016-11-21
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Friday Reading 2016-11-18
Another week almost over so in-between daydreaming about relaxing this weekend I’ll be reading…
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sqlreleaseservices/sql-server-2016-service-pack-1-sp1-released/
SQL Server 2016 SP1 has been released....
2016-11-18
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SQL Server & Containers – Part One
Containers are a hot topic at the moment, there seems to be a new article about them on Hacker News...
2016-11-16
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Monday Coffee 2016-11-14
Communication in the workplace.
With the release of Microsoft Teams we now have a dazzlingly array of software designed to increase...
2016-11-14
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Friday Reading 2016-11-11
It’s Friday so no releases to Production today (ha!) which means in-between my code reviews, server audits and other tasks...
2016-11-11
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Drag & Drop Table & Column Names in SSMS
I was working with a developer the other day and he was typing out each table name and all the...
2016-11-09
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Query shortcuts in SQL Server Management Studio
Tired of typing out the same queries day after day? Well query shortcuts in SSMS are for you!
Following on from...
2016-10-13 (first published: 2016-09-28)
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Changing connection colours in SQL Server Management Studio
A simple but effective setting in SQL Server Management Studio is using custom colours to identify which server you are...
2016-09-22
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DBCC CLONEDATABASE in SQL Server 2014
In SQL Server 2014 SP2 an interesting new DBCC command was included, DBCC CLONEDATABASE
This command creates a “clone” of a...
2016-08-22 (first published: 2016-08-17)
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Question of the Day
UNISTR Escape
In SQL Server 2025, I run this command:
SELECT UNISTR('*3041*308A*304C\3068 and good night', '*') as "A Classic";
What is returned? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
A: 
B: 
C: 
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