The Smiling DBA

After getting a little lost from the rail to the hotel, I finally got to sleep Sunday night after a...

2011-10-10

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PASS Summit 2011: My Itinerary

Here goes with what I hope to achieve the following week in Seattle, WA Oct 9-15 for my 4th summit.

I...

2011-09-29

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I will try my best to answer some of the questions after the Standard Operating Procedure webcast for 24 Hours...

2011-09-20

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There's a great article from MIT Technology Review about resetting on the hype of...

etherness – n. the wistful feeling of looking around a gathering of loved ones,...

A customer was asking about tracking logins and logouts in Redgate Monitor. We don’t...

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What does this code return in SQL Server 2025+? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)

SELECT UNISTR('Hello 4E16754C') AS 'A Classic';