How To Fix OBS Black Screen when recording SQL Server Session Demo’s?
Everyone loves a demo. When I say everyone, I mean I personally love seeing a demo in a session which is why 99% of any sessions I present will...
2020-04-02
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Delayed Durability in the wild…
Background
We have recently been working on large data migration project for one of our clients and thought I would share...
2016-11-18 (first published: 2016-11-14)
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Why would you never use SSIS Fast Load…?
We all know that if you want SQL Server to push data into a table then you want to batch the...
2016-11-17 (first published: 2016-11-14)
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Windows 10 Upgrade on Surface Pro 3 – Sending email issue FIXED
I very rarely blogabout anything other than SQL Server but felt that with a lot of the SQL Community using...
2015-08-02
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SQLNorthEast Usergroup 2015 dates announced (preliminary)
Mike and I have been extremely busy over the Xmas period and we’ve finally sorted dates for our 2015 instalment of...
2015-01-13
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Merge csv files – quick PowerShell snippet
During a bit of work I’ve been doing this evening for SQLRelay, I used something I have in my arsenal of...
2014-07-14
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2013 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Sydney...
2013-12-31
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Output SQL Server data from multiple tables to Tab Delimited text files using Powershell
I had a request this morning for something I though was actually very simple:
Client: “Can you extract all data for...
2013-12-27 (first published: 2013-12-20)
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SQL Server NorthEast – New Usergroup!!
SQLBits in Nottingham was where it all began. A short conversation on whether there were any plans for a SQL...
2013-11-19
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Making sure your Triggers fire when they should
As some of you may be aware, triggers are not my favourite thing in the world but like most things,...
2013-03-04
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Blogs
Advice I Like: Pyramid Schemes
By Steve Jones
If someone is trying to convince you it’s not a pyramid scheme, it’s a...
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...
Forums
Database file shrink issue.
Hi experts, I have a 3+ TB database on a 2019 sql server which...
The North Star for the Year
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Multiple Escape Characters
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Multiple Escape Characters
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