Lori Brown

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Monitor Database and Log Growth

Most DBA's would like to be notified when automatic database file growth occurs. This script will log file growth. It will not log file shrink but could be easily modifed to do so.Script does the following: 1. create tables to store server list, current & historical file sizes and actual growth for each database file […]

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2005-11-29 (first published: )

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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';
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