Eitan Blumin

Eitan Blumin is a SQL Server database expert and a senior consultant at Madeira Data Solutions. He has many years of experience in all fields of SQL Server (since the year 2005), including but not limited to: Database design, management, development, tuning, replication, backup management, security management, SSIS, SSRS, encryption, disaster recovery and more.
Eitan also has 10 years of experience in ASP web development, and some experience in a wide variety of development environments such as PHP, C, C++, C#, VB, Java, Perl, Assembler, Powershell and more.

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Question of the Day

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I have this data in a SQL Server 2025 table: 

CREATE TABLE Response
( ResponseID INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT ResponsePK PRIMARY KEY
, ResponseVal VARBINARY(5000)
)
GO
If I want to get a value from this table that I can add to a URL in a browser, which of these code items produces a result I can use?

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