published on SQL Server Central https://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/standards-matter At first, this was going to be a technical article about an index maintenance horror story. I received an off-hours page. The index...
2022-04-21
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Just a short update. I haven’t blogged since May, and that’s because I’ve been presenting. Now, I have a publishing contract, so that’s keeping me busy. I want to...
2021-12-21
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We have a fair number of pretty large databases, and I was having a hard time scheduling full integrity checks to run at least once a week. For a...
2021-05-18
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This came up because a user had db_owner perms and it was only reading from a database and creating a table variable from it. I created a new user...
2021-04-05
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I wanted to find out what data types SQL Server auditing was using, so I put the auditing file results into a temp table and executed tempdb..sp_help on that...
2021-04-04
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This is a super simple way to retain the data and settings that you create and change on your SQL Server Docker instance. There’s a lot of talk about...
2021-02-21
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2021-02-20
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There are three ways to get into bash in a docker container: docker exec -it containername bash docker exec -it containername “bash” docker exec -it containername /bin/bash Once you...
2021-02-15
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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...
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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