SQL Saturday 467 – Precon – Query processing and internals
Im not doing a tremendous amount of public speaking this year and concentrating on more professional matters, however im pleased...
2015-10-04
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Dave Ballantyne
Getting out of the ground with TSQL Smells.
At SQLBits I had a number of conversations with a number of people over TSQL Smells, my open source project...
2015-03-23
683 reads
Increasing ColumnStore compression ratio for archival and “Cold storage”
At my present client, part of the task I have to under take is to re-engineer the “Cold Storage”. This...
2015-03-17
359 reads
SQLBits, Incremental Statistics and Demo Fail
So another great SQLBits is done and dusted, many thanks to the team, helpers and sponsors for putting on such...
2015-03-08
479 reads
Non use of persisted data – Part Three
A long time ago I looked at some reasons as to why persisted computed columns ( and therefore indexes on those...
2014-11-02
362 reads
Please please tell me now…
.. Is there something I should know, sang Duran Duran many moons ago when I was young and before I knew...
2014-08-15
397 reads
Reasons why your plans suck : No 56,536
I have been working with SQL server for more years than I really care to mention and like to think...
2014-04-12
388 reads
T4 Support in SSDT
Sometimes a piece of technology passes you by completely, T4 templating happens to have done that for me. On tuesday night,...
2014-03-29
1,148 reads
Whats This Command Bar ?
One of the challenges I faced while creating my TSQL Smells visual studio (SSDT) add in, was trying to find out...
2014-03-13
319 reads
On the move
Its been a fair few years since I started blogging on SQLBlogCasts and the time has now come to find...
2013-04-14
621 reads
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...
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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