You Are A Coder
So, you say you’re a DBA. I say you’re not. You say you’re a system administrator. I say you’re wrong. We are all coders now. Every single one of...
2019-11-04
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Grant Fritchey
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Talk To Me At PASS Summit 2019
I say this all the time, but shockingly few people take advantage. Say hi to me. Please. I’m going to be at PASS Summit next week. I’ll be presenting...
2019-11-01
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Well Trained Staff
I’ve had the opportunity in the last month to do a couple of different consulting visits, one private and one through my employer, Redgate. The goals of each of...
2019-10-28
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Become a Technological Historian
This week Grant muses on how history can impact our decisions moving forward, and having a little empathy can be useful when re-examining the past.
2019-10-26
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Passwords = A Good Thing
Those my friends are, in my opinion, one of the single most wonderful things on earth, white chocolate macadamia nut cookies. Now, you may not like those. So, picture...
2019-10-23
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Database Fundamentals #24: Filtering Data
If you’ve been reading these Database Fundamentals posts, you’ve already seen the WHERE clause because of your use of it when manipulating data with DELETE and UPDATE statements. It’s...
2019-10-21 (first published: 2019-10-14)
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SQL in the City/PASS Summit
My great organization, Redgate, is doing things a little different this year at PASS Summit. Instead of hosting our own event, we’ve decided to host a pre-con at the...
2019-10-08
53 reads
SQL Injection Mitigation in SQL Server 2019
I’ve been teaching a lot more about SQL Injection lately (including blog posts). I’ve been doing this because, despite this being a 21 year-old problem with well defined solutions,...
2019-10-07
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Database Fundamentals #22: Using the Join Operator, CROSS JOIN
While the CROSS JOIN is not used much, and, depending on the size of your data it can be dangerous, there are some uses for it. For example, you...
2019-10-03 (first published: 2019-09-23)
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Celebrate Success
Today Grant reminds us to not only think about the things we can do better, but remember the good things that we accomplish.
2019-09-28
165 reads
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
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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