New HP Envy 15 Laptop
After quite a bit of research, I pulled the trigger on a new HP Envy 15 system last Saturday. This...
2009-11-13
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Blogs
Will the New PASS Summit Attendees be Back?
Despite the down economy, the 2009 PASS Summit attendance was down only 8% compared to the 15% of other conferences...
2009-11-13
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Performance Tuning OLAP Reports
Reports that use an Analysis Services cube as a data source can often have performance problems during pre-execution. Before you...
2009-11-11
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SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Information Queries
Here is the script that I used in my Dr. DMV presentation this afternoon at PASS. It is a set...
2009-11-05
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Suggested Max Memory Settings for SQL Server 2005/2008
It is pretty important to make sure you set the Max Server memory setting for SQL Server 2005/2008 to something...
2009-11-04
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Electronic Health Records – What’s the Big Deal? (Part 2)
In the first installment of this discussion, I talked about the challenges facing database professionals and others with respect to...
2009-11-02
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Where Will We PASS Each Other?
In my a post on Monday, I talked about who I want to meet while at the PASS Summit. Today...
2009-10-30
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My Schedule at the Summit/Let’s Connect
I’m flying out Sunday via Alaska Air, taking the direct flight from Orlando to Seattle, arriving at 11:40 am. If...
2009-10-30
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PASS Update #18
Eric Wisdahl posted some questions on my last update, and I thought I’d reply here to make my answers more...
2009-10-27
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Characters
No, I’m not talking about a Dickens novel. I’m talking about the number of characters in a string. I had a painful time recently because of the word “characters.”
2009-10-26
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Blogs
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...
Start with the FabricTools PowerShell module
By Kamil
Managing Microsoft Fabric at scale quickly becomes painful if you rely only on the...
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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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