Tuning a SQL Server instance and improving the way it performs is a complex task that many people struggle to complete. In this piece, Steve Jones talks about the idea that it is a science as much as an art.
2014-01-13
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This Friday Steve Jones asks about how you set up your hardware and software environment for work. Are there things you recommend?
2014-01-10
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Steve Jones is taking a sabbatical this year and has a few thoughts on what this means for his career.
2014-01-09
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The holiday time period isn't always a fun time for IT pros who can get stuck working more than usual. Steve Jones talks about some of the experiences he's had.
2014-01-08
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Work on your professional development plan in 2014. Steve Jones has a little advice for you.
2014-01-06
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Steve Jones requests today that DBAs learn to work with developers and make us all more efficient. He asks for your ideas about how we might go about doing this.
2014-01-03
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2014-01-02
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2014-01-01
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Steve Jones looks back at 2013, starting with his predictions on Jan 1 and looking at how data and SQL Server impacted our community.
2013-12-31
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Google is trying to figure out who might quit the company, using their own custom application. Steve Jones thinks this is a great idea and wishes more companies would do it.
2013-12-30 (first published: 2009-06-10)
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By Steve Jones
This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...
By John
Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...
By Bert Wagner
Until recently, my family's 90,000+ photos have been hidden away in the depths of...
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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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