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SQL Server Time Bombs

Common Reasons for Emergency SQL calls If you are a production DBA (or Accidental prod DBA) you’ve gotten that frantic call in the middle of the night. Or maybe...

2025-03-12 (first published: )

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T-SQL Tuesday 184 - Mentorship

T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each month. This month, Deborah Melkin
(blog) asks us to talk about our relationship with mentoring and...

2025-03-11

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SQL Saturday Atlanta BI Recap

https://sqlsaturday.com/2025-03-08-sqlsaturday1102/#schedule SQL Saturday Atlanta BI is one of my favorite SQL Saturdays of the year. This year was especially sweet to see a lot of the SML (Saturday Morning...

2025-03-10

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Using Prompt AI for a Travel Data Analysis

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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

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In the era of cloud-native applications, Kubernetes has become the default standard platform for...

2025 Wrapped for Steve

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I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...

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reaching ftp thru winscp but erroring in ssis ftp task connection

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Finding Motivation

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The Last Binary Value of the Year

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The Last Binary Value of the Year

What does this code return?

SELECT cast(0x2025 AS NVARCHAR(20))
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