Getting Drive Info, Part 5, the SSIS WMI Data Reader Task
In the final installment of the Getting Drive Info series (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4), SSIS will again be used to collect and save the drive...
2010-12-04
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The Gerasus Software Blog
Un-SQL Friday 001 : Branding for Business
I really like Jen’s (MidnightDBA,#sqlawesomesauce) idea for the first Un-SQL Friday. I was struggling with the topic and had to...
2010-11-20
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Un-SQL Friday 001 : Branding for Business
I really like Jen’s (MidnightDBA,#sqlawesomesauce) idea for the first Un-SQL Friday. I was struggling with the topic and had to read some of the posts from earlier today. No...
2010-11-20
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Troubleshooting Connectivity with UDL files
I had a new SSIS package that was ready to deploy to production. It was pulling data from Oracle and...
2010-10-24
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Troubleshooting Connectivity with UDL files
I had a new SSIS package that was ready to deploy to production. It was pulling data from Oracle and this was the first package being placed into production...
2010-10-24
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Getting Drive Info, Part 4, the SSIS Script Component
In this installment of the Getting Drive Info series (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3), SSIS will be used to...
2010-09-13
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Getting Drive Info, Part 4, the SSIS Script Component
In this installment of the Getting Drive Info series (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3), SSIS will be used to collect and save the drive information. SSIS provides multiple...
2010-09-13
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Getting Drive Info Part 3, CLR
In the first two parts, (Part 1, Part 2), of the Getting Drive Info series the techniques to gather drive...
2010-09-02
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Getting Drive Info Part 3, CLR
In the first two parts, (Part 1, Part 2), of the Getting Drive Info series the techniques to gather drive info with methods that will work on SQL Server...
2010-09-02
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Getting Drive Info Part 2, DTS
In this installment of the drive info series we will gather the drive information via a DTS package. Part 1...
2010-08-23
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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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