Notes on the South Florida Code Camp
I attended the South Florida Code Camp this past Saturday and it turned out to be quite an event. More...
2008-02-04
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SQLAndy
Hello Secure World - MS Site Worth Looking At
Saw this in the MSDN flash yesterday, MS has a new Silverlight site up (newest toy and all!) that focuses...
2008-01-29
1,395 reads
The Long Tail
Another book I read recently, The Long Tail by Chris Anderson of Wired Magazine goes into detail talking about some of the changes...
2008-01-29
1,482 reads
IT Transparency Posted on SSC
As I mentioned yesterday the article I wrote on IT Transparency is finally live today and now the wait to...
2008-01-29
1,304 reads
Agenda Posted for South Florida Code Camp
I'll be there doing a presentation on Transactional Replication, and my friend Chris Rock will be doing on on LINQ to...
2008-01-28
1,382 reads
IT Transparency, the intro!
Tomorrow SSC is scheduled to publish an article I wrote on IT Transparency which gives a first person account of...
2008-01-28
1,422 reads
Visiting the Charlotte SQL User Group on Feb 27th
I'll be visiting the Charlotte SQL Group on Feb 27th and I'll be doing one of my favorite presentations, Transactional...
2008-01-28
1,374 reads
Interesting Article about Measuring Performance in Software Test Mag
The Jan 2008 issue of Software Test & Performance Magazine (available as free PDF download, you can also download back issues...
2008-01-27
1,649 reads
System Sessions/Spids Rather than Spid < 50
Saw System Sessions posted on the PSS blog and it shows an example of information being written to the error...
2008-01-23
607 reads
Free Subscriptions to Visual Studio Magazine
First time I've noticed this being offered, saw it posted on the Orlando .Net Users Group (ONETUG) site. Sign up...
2008-01-21
1,443 reads
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