SQL Saturday #132 Pensacola and Wheeling, WV PASS UG
I have 2 upcoming speaker opportunities in June and am very excited about presenting this material.
June 9th is in...
2012-05-26
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The Smiling DBA
SQL Saturday #150 and Tech Day
Baton Rouge’s annual tech event for the IT community is coming up August 4th on the beautiful campus of LSU....
2012-05-17
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PASS Data Architecture VC presents Mike Fal: SQL Server Table Partitioning
Thursday’s (May 17th, 2012) PASS Data Architecture Virtual Chapter has Mike demonstrating some cool Table Partitioning scripts which I was...
2012-05-14
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SQL Saturday Houston #107 Recap
I enjoyed a long weekend in Houston starting with Kalen Delaney’s Pre-con on Query Tuning. I have learned over the...
2012-04-27
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PASS Data Arch VC presents Mike Fal: Eating the Elephant: SQL Server Table Partitioning
Thursday’s (May 17th, 2012) PASS Data Architecture Virtual Chapter has Mike demonstrating some cool Table Partitioning scripts which I was...
2012-04-18
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SQL Saturday #107–Houston
Wow, blessed to speaker at another SQL Saturday in Houston #107. The first task of this weekend is Friday. Kalen...
2012-04-09
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Execution Plans – Table, Clustered Index and Non-Clustered Index Scan
An important operator to understand in execution plans is a scan. A Scan can be good and bad, so understanding...
2012-04-02
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Execution Plans – Merge Join
The Merge Join is a Physical Operation when joining 2 sets of data that are in the same order.
There...
2012-03-15
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Execution Plans – Nested Loop
The nested loop is a physical operator used to join 2 or more sets of data when the query optimizer...
2012-03-09
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Another 24 Hours of PASS
Nothing like a 24 hour barrage of SQL Server training for FREE!!! Did I mention it was free?
The PASS Data...
2012-02-27
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Resetting on the AI hype train
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Question of the Day
UNISTR Basics
What does this code return in SQL Server 2025+? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
SELECT UNISTR('Hello 4E16754C') AS 'A Classic';
A: 
B: 
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