4-4-5 Calendar Functions, Part 1
New author Cliff Corder has a SQL Server function to report on a 4-4-5 Calendar Accounting Year.
Labor Day 2010
It's Labor Day in the US, and a day off for Steve, so enjoy this set of bloopers from his podcast.
Please don’t Tweet this, but…
Brad worries that with the advent and growth of social media, has come an increasing concern that today's private conversation may turn into tomorrow's world-wide Tweet.
TSQL Challenge 38 - Calculate SQL Stars awarded to the Winners of TSQL
This challenge involves parsing a delimited string and applying some logic to perform some calculations based on the position of tokens within the string.
Rebuilding Indexes using the SSMS Database Maintenance Wizard
Index fragmentation can cause problems with query performance. Indexes therefore need to be occasionally rebuilt. the Rebuild Index task of the SSMS Database Maintenance Wizard drops and rebuilds every index in a database. It is effective but an off-line activity that is resource-intensive, so it not always the best way of avoiding index fragmentation in a production database. Brad explains..
Introduction to SQL Server Statistics
A free virtual chapter presentation by Andy Warren on Sept 7, 2010 at 12:00EDT. This beginner to intermediate level session will introduce you to statistics, including how to create, manage, troubleshoot, and more!
Sending scheduled SQL query results via HTML e-mail using SSIS
Send SQL query results as HTML-formatted e-mail using SQL Server Integration Services.
SQLBits - The 7 Wonders of SQL
Last day for early bird registration for the next SQLBits conference on Sept 30th-Oct 2, 2010 at York University. SQLServerCentral has a discount code if you'd like to attend.
Automatic Restart of SSIS packages after Failover or Failure
SSIS makes it possible to minimize work lost by starting after the last successfully executed control flow task upon restarting a failed package. From there, one challenge many seek to overcome is automatically restarting that package at that point without any manual intervention. This would make it possible for your SSIS packages to be running, your cluster to failover, and your SSIS packages to restart and complete without you having to respond to the failover and restart them.
Blogs
Using Prompt AI for a Travel Data Analysis
By Steve Jones
I was looking back at my year and decided to see if SQL Prompt...
FinOps for Kubernetes: Leveraging OpenCost, KubeGreen, and Kubecost for Cost Efficiency
In the era of cloud-native applications, Kubernetes has become the default standard platform for...
2025 Wrapped for Steve
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
Forums
The North Star for the Year
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Multiple Escape Characters
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reaching ftp thru winscp but erroring in ssis ftp task connection
Hi, below i show various results trying to reach our ftp site (a globalscape...
Question of the Day
Multiple Escape Characters
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code (in a database with the appropriate collation):
SELECT UNISTR('%*3041%*308A%*304C%*3068 and good night', '%*') AS 'A Classic';
What is returned? See possible answers