Positively SQL » sql http://blog.sqlpositive.com SQL blog by Luke Jian Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:30:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 SQLskills Community Mentoring and me http://blog.sqlpositive.com/2011/11/sqlskills-community-mentoring-program-and-me/ http://blog.sqlpositive.com/2011/11/sqlskills-community-mentoring-program-and-me/#comments Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:41:46 +0000 Luke http://blog.sqlpositive.com/?p=166 As some of you might be aware Paul Randal (blog | twitter) has just announced the launch of a new SQL Skills Community Mentoring program for a few individuals that took part in the SQL Skills Immersion Events. I’m deeply honored to be one of the select few that get access to invaluable advice from [...]]]> http://blog.sqlpositive.com/2011/11/sqlskills-community-mentoring-program-and-me/feed/ 2 Using CONVERT with COLLATE to strip accents from Unicode strings http://blog.sqlpositive.com/2010/03/using-convert-with-collate-to-strip-accents-from-unicode-strings/ http://blog.sqlpositive.com/2010/03/using-convert-with-collate-to-strip-accents-from-unicode-strings/#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:31:22 +0000 Luke http://blog.sqlpositive.com/?p=74 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 [...]]]> http://blog.sqlpositive.com/2010/03/using-convert-with-collate-to-strip-accents-from-unicode-strings/feed/ 2 What three events brought you here? http://blog.sqlpositive.com/2010/01/what-three-events-brought-you-here/ http://blog.sqlpositive.com/2010/01/what-three-events-brought-you-here/#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:51:00 +0000 Luke http://blog.sqlpositive.com/2010/01/what-three-events-brought-you-here/ 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 [...]]]> http://blog.sqlpositive.com/2010/01/what-three-events-brought-you-here/feed/ 2 SQL Server 2008 Failover Clustering with High Availability http://blog.sqlpositive.com/2009/08/sql-server-2008-failover-clustering-with-high-availability/ http://blog.sqlpositive.com/2009/08/sql-server-2008-failover-clustering-with-high-availability/#comments Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:03:28 +0000 Luke http://blog.sqlpositive.com/2009/08/sql-server-2008-failover-clustering-with-high-availability/ 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 [...]]]> http://blog.sqlpositive.com/2009/08/sql-server-2008-failover-clustering-with-high-availability/feed/ 1