Daily Coping 9 June 2020
I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2020-06-09
13 reads
The Voice of the DBA
T-SQL Tuesday #127–Non SQL Tricks
Today is T-SQL Tuesday, with this month being hosted by Ken Fisher. This is an interesting topic, looking at tips, but ones outside of SQL Server. Since many of...
2020-06-09
109 reads
Social: A Small Step to Address Poor Past Behavior
Tl;Dr – This is about changing your main branch in git to main. However, please read and think about what I am saying here. When I started working with...
2020-06-08
39 reads
Reading an dataset in R
I got a dataset file the other day with an .rds extension. I had never seen this, but with a quick Google, I figured out this was a dataset...
2020-06-08
91 reads
Daily Coping 8 June 2020
I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2020-06-08
11 reads
Daily Coping 5 June 2020
I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2020-06-05
12 reads
Daily Coping 4 Jun 2020
I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2020-06-04
20 reads
Creating a New Sequence–#SQLNewBlogger
I wrote about sequences in an editorial recently and decided to start using them. Creating one turned out to be surprisingly easy. I had a table I’d been logging...
2020-06-19 (first published: 2020-06-03)
359 reads
An All Star Lineup for EightKB
An online conference is coming on June 17, 2020 that is full of high level content. It’s the type of event that I think contains information relatively few people...
2020-06-03
82 reads
Daily Coping 3 Jun 2020
I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2020-06-03
8 reads
Blogs
Resetting on the AI hype train
By Brian Kelley
There's a great article from MIT Technology Review about resetting on the hype of...
A New Word: Etherness
By Steve Jones
etherness – n. the wistful feeling of looking around a gathering of loved ones,...
Vibe Coding a Login Tracking System
By Steve Jones
A customer was asking about tracking logins and logouts in Redgate Monitor. We don’t...
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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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