Autumn Update - Trick or Treat
Its been a busy few weeks for me, most of that outside of gethynellis.com I’m in the process of moving...
2016-11-01
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Gethyn Ellis
You don't need any Training? OK...I believe you.
This week's Super duper IT training offers are in:
If you see any that take your fancy let me know. Drop...
2016-10-13
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SQL Friday: Weekly Round up 30th September
This week has been a relatively relaxed week for me. I had a one-day onsite event in Cardiff on Wednesday...
2016-09-30
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How to Setup Kerberos Correctly
David was in Copenhagen this weekend delivering his Kerberos talk Taming the Beast: Kerberos for the SQL DBA to SQL...
2016-09-29 (first published: 2016-09-20)
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Want to Win a Free @LearningTree Course? #LtreRox - @tangentc is the first ever twitter winner!!!
As regular readers of this blog will know I teach some data courses for Learning Tree. Recently Learning Tree has...
2016-09-29
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Connecting to Twitter with R and RStudio
Social Media and Analytics is always an interesting combination. Twitter has an API that you can so you can connect...
2016-09-28
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SQL Relay 2016
It less than week to SQL Relay - a week long SQL conference that is visiting Birmingham, Cardiff, Reading, Nottingham and...
2016-09-27
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TGI SQL Friday: Weekly Roundup 23rd September
Its been another Learning Tree week for me this week and a very interesting one at that. I'm on the...
2016-09-23
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Have you Upgraded From SQL Server 2005?
My first Learning Tree SQL Server Newsletter that was sent out back in August was titled SQL Server 2016: Keeping...
2016-09-22
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Building Oracle 12c on Linux 7 on Hyper-V
David has written a white paper, or short ebook titled building oracle 12C on Linux 7 VM residing on Hyper-V....
2016-09-19
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Blogs
Learn Better: Pause to Review More
By Brian Kelley
If you want to learn better, pause more in your learning to intentionally review.
Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-Gen: Bring on the IOPS
By John
If you’ve used Azure SQL Managed Instance General Purpose, you know the drill: to...
SQL, MDX, DAX – the languages of data
By DataOnWheels
Ramblings of a retired data architect Let me start by saying that I have...
Forums
Two foreign keys to the same table. Can't cascade deletes.
Not sure if this is really a relational theory question but it seems about...
Connecting Power BI to SSAS and effective user not working
Hi everyone, Below is a consolidated summary of what we validated Architecture & data...
High Availability setup - has anyone seen this method?
Hi all, I recently moved to a new employer who have their HA setup...
Question of the Day
Encoding URLs
I have this data in a SQL Server 2025 table:
CREATE TABLE Response ( ResponseID INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT ResponsePK PRIMARY KEY , ResponseVal VARBINARY(5000) ) GOIf 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? See possible answers