T-SQL for Performance and Accuracy – Vern Rabe: A preconference essential for anyone using SQL Server
SQL Saturday Preconference: February 9th, 2018 in Redmond, WA Do you think you write T-SQL queries that perform well? Think...
2018-01-11
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SQL Server BI Blog
Interview with Guy In A Cube’s Adam Saxton and Patrick Leblanc
Since starting the Guy In A Cube series over three years ago, Adam Saxton has become the front man for...
2017-12-20
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Enterprise Analysis Services Development: Interview with Alberto Ferrari and Marco Russo
Between sessions at the PASS Summit, I had the privilege of interviewing Alberto Ferrari and Marco Russo; SSAS Maestros and...
2017-12-03
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Power BI Hands-On Workshops in April, 2017
During the month of April, I will be delivering three full-day Power BI hands-On workshops. Each of these events will...
2017-03-02
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Gartner Magic Quadrant for BI 2017 Top 3 Rankings
This is a different spin on the top three vendor rankings visualized in Power BI. According to the placement of...
2017-02-17
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Professional SSRS 2016 Book Preview Posts
This page is a table of contents for for several new and forthcoming posts. I’m posting a series of excerpts...
2017-01-22
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Publish Power BI Reports to SSRS On-premise Preview Now Available
This just in from the Reporting Services product team: “Power BI reports in SQL Server Reporting Services: January 2017 Technical...
2017-01-17
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Power BI on-Premises Production Targeted for Mid 2017
NEWS FLASH: Power BI reports can be deployed to SQL Server Reporting Services web portal. The production-ready release is targeted...
2016-12-16
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Analysis Services and Power BI: Time-travel, Space-warping and Teleportation
As I visit businesses, consulting clients and training classes, to teach data reporting and analytics; there is a recurring conversation. ...
2016-12-28 (first published: 2016-12-10)
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Migrating reports between SSRS report servers simplified with new PowerShell commands
I recently needed to replicate all of the reports on one report server to a different server. I started downloading...
2016-12-04
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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...
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