MSDB Tuning by purging backup and restore history
Have you ever had problem with your backup jobs taking more time than usual overlapping your maintenance window? It is...
2017-12-01
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Have you ever had problem with your backup jobs taking more time than usual overlapping your maintenance window? It is...
2017-12-01
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Today’s tip is a very basic functionality that comes with any SSMS (SQL Server Management studio), we are talking about...
2017-11-07
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By Steve Jones
If someone is trying to convince you it’s not a pyramid scheme, it’s a...
By Steve Jones
I was looking back at my year and decided to see if SQL Prompt...
In the era of cloud-native applications, Kubernetes has become the default standard platform for...
Hi experts, I have a 3+ TB database on a 2019 sql server which...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The North Star for the...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item 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