Positively SQL

Today Mladen Prajdic  posted a on Twitter a SQL statement that captured my attention: (http://twitter.com/MladenPrajdic/status/9878219727)

SELECT
CONVERT(varchar(50), N’æøåáäĺćçčéđńőöřůýţžš’)
COLLATE Cyrillic_General_CI_AI
returns aoaaalcccednooruytzs

If you notice the conversion to Cyrillic_General_CI_AI collation his shows an interesting mechanism for code page translation that we could not explain:
Why does Cyrillic_General_CI_AI or   Greek_CI_AI collation successfully convert accents to their base ascii chars?
 I found an answer [...]

Recently Paul Randal (aka Mr. Tripp)  started a web version of the tag game in the SQL Server blogging community  on what were the three most important events that shaped your career and got you to this point in your life. It is a very difficult question because unlike data, life events do not accept [...]

I’m heading home from the August session of Chicago PASS and SSUG meeting.
First off, this was the biggest meeting in Chicago. Over 80 people signed up and for a very good reason.
After a very interesting Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Administration with Windows PowerShell presentation by The MAK and Yan Pan,  Allan Hirt managed to cram [...]