Pass 2015 – First Impressions
It’s Pass 2015 this week and I’m attending (seriously I’m unbelievably chuffed)! As they’ll be a shedload of blogs about...
2015-10-27
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The DBA Who Came In From The Cold
Pass 2015 – First Impressions
It’s Pass 2015 this week and I’m attending (seriously I’m unbelievably chuffed)! As they’ll be a shedload of blogs about...
2015-10-27
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Where is my data stored?
Tables within SQL Server can contain a maximum of 8060 bytes per row. However even though columns are limited to...
2015-09-21
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Where is my data stored?
Tables within SQL Server can contain a maximum of 8060 bytes per row. However even though columns are limited to...
2015-09-21
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The Database Corruption Challenge
For the last ten weeks Steve Stedmen (blog | twitter) has been running a database corruption challenge. The final challenge closes...
2015-07-20
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The Database Corruption Challenge
For the last ten weeks Steve Stedmen (blog | twitter) has been running a database corruption challenge. The final challenge closes...
2015-07-20
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SQL Server 2016 – Stretch Databases
One of the features I’ve been interested in that’s coming with SQL Server 2016 is the stretched database. The ability...
2015-06-25 (first published: 2015-06-15)
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SQL Server 2016 – Stretch Databases
One of the feature I’ve been interested in that’s coming with SQL Server 2016 is the stretched database. The ability...
2015-06-15
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SQL Server 2016 features I’m interested in
Microsoft announced this month what features/improvements will be in the next version of SQL Server, SQL Server 2016. You can...
2015-05-26
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SQL Server 2016 features I’m interested in
Microsoft announced this month what features/improvements will be in the next version of SQL Server, SQL Server 2016. You can...
2015-05-26
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Blogs
The Book of Redgate: Spread across the world
By Steve Jones
This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...
Merry Christmas
By John
Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...
Self-Hosting a Photo Server the Whole Family Can Use
By Bert Wagner
Until recently, my family's 90,000+ photos have been hidden away in the depths of...
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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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