Capture Index Usage Statistics for Better Analysis
Starting with SQL Server 2005, Microsoft introduced Dynamic Management Views to help DBAs see what's going inside of SQL Server....
2012-10-23
2,527 reads
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Which SQL Instance is Killing Your CPU?
You have 5 instances running. How do you know which one is killing your CPU?
As you can see from Windows...
2012-10-16
553 reads
Grant Execute Permission on All Stored Procedures
Right out of the box, SQL Server makes it pretty easy to grant SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE to all...
2012-10-10
13,070 reads
How to Make SQL Server Listen on Multiple Ports
Have you ever needed an instance of SQL Server to listen on multiple TCP/IP port numbers but didn't know how...
2012-10-05
1,180 reads
Use Powershell to Manage Idera SQL Diagnostic Manager
Idera SQL Diagnostic Manager (or as I call it "SQLdm") is a great monitoring and performance tuning tool that I...
2012-09-28
2,735 reads
Welcome to Everday SQL
My name is Patrick Keisler and I have been a Microsoft SQL Server DBA for over 12 years. During that...
2012-09-22
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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...
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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