October 2012 - Posts

• Social media and special characters

  I’ve previously blogged about using Unicode with T-SQL to put superscripts, subscripts, and special characters into text strings. Unicode is also useful in formatting social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and that dinosaur otherwise known as email. Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 02, 2012 6:05 PM by John Paul Cook | 0 Comments

• Using Sizer for recording presentations

  I needed to do some screen captures and recordings of SSMS and realized this is a common problem that many of you could use some help with. There is a freeware tool called Sizer (thanks to Paul Nielsen for telling me about it) that lets you chose your Read More... Posted Monday, October 01, 2012 6:02 PM by John Paul Cook | 0 Comments