SQLAndy

When I teach performance tuning I always remind students to be cautious about service packs because things you "know" may...

2007-06-04

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Speaking at PASS 2007

I'll be doing a spotlight session called 'Transactional Replication for Beginners' this year. I've been speaking at the Summit since...

2007-05-29

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I've got a new article running on SSC today with a few more book reviews: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/awarren/2998.asp.

2007-05-23

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If someone is trying to convince you it’s not a pyramid scheme, it’s a...

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...

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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?