An interview with Jeff Moden: Exceptional DBA of 2011 and natural helper
Jeff Moden has been elected as the Exceptional DBA of 2011. Here, Jeff talks to Bob Cramblitt about the life of an exeptional DBA.
Data Quality on the Open Web
As we look to take more data from customers and clients and embed it in our applications, data quality becomes a bigger issue
Free as in Beer
This editorial was originally published on Feb 7, 2006. Today Steve Jones looks at the problems of plagiarism and the avoidance of work by many people these days.
SQL Server Memory Management Explained
Author Craig Outcalt takes a deep dive into the SQL Server memory allocation and how it competes with OS memory.
Removing HTML tags from text data using PowerShell
There are situations when you may need to remove HTML tags from your character string data. PowerShell will let you "clean" the string data and export the result to a .csv file in a single step.
Catching Deadlock Information in SQL Logs
This article presents a handy way to retrieve deadlock information in an ordered way from the error log.
Dreaming of Windows
This week Steve Jones dreams about the changes he would like to see in the next version of Windows, unveiled this past week at the Microsoft Build Conference.
Intertia
This editorial was originally published on August 22, 2006. Steve Jones looks at the pace of change in companies and notes it ought to be dictated by the business, not IT.
TSQL Challenge 65 - Solving the Running Total Problem
This challenge invites you to solve one of the most common calculation challenges seen in applications that deal with financial -transactions.
Blogs
Accept the no and move on
By Brian Kelley
Here is a short emotional intelligence (EI) post for today, courtesy of Seth Godin....
Don’t Fight with AI
By Steve Jones
I was recently trying to handle a simple task with a few AI tools...
Narrow Task Decomposition in AI Pipeline Agents
A nightly load into sales_fact fails. Ask an orchestrating agent to break down the...
Forums
Searching for my own posts
I have a really stupid question... Is there an easy way to search for...
How to Work with On-Premises AI Models to Generate T-SQL Code
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Escaping Strings
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Question of the Day
Escaping Strings
The STRING_ESCAPE() function requires 2 parameters in SQL Server 2025. The first is a string of text and the second is the type of escape rules being used. What are the options for the second parameter?
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