TSQL Tuesday Misconceptions in SQL Server
I haven’t written a post for a TSQL Tuesday for a little while and I know that I’m late getting...
2010-10-12
1,070 reads
Gethyn Ellis
Instant File Initialization – Is it Turned On?
I have posted a short note on instant file initialization previously, that post can be found here. The crux of...
2010-09-21
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Policy Based Management - Disable Autoclose
I posted recently about my run-in with autoclose and my online friend Jorge Segarra (Blog|@SQLCHICKEN) left a great comment on...
2010-09-15
1,613 reads
Mastering PowerShell – Free EBook
Someone who I follow on twitter posted a tweet recently with a link to a free eBook on PowerShell. I...
2010-09-10
2,589 reads
SQL Server - Dedicated Administrator Connection (DAC)
This a short post looking at the Dedicated Administrator Connection or DAC for short. In extreme circumstances, when there is...
2010-09-09
8,228 reads
Auto Close – SQL Server
I ran into an issue recently where I had a third party supplied database set to auto close. I couldn't...
2010-09-07
2,994 reads
Incremental Load - TSQL
For my first technical post in a short while I thought I would look at something I have worked on...
2010-08-23
11,036 reads
Summer Update
I haven’t posted on my SQL Server blog for a few weeks, I missed the August T-SQL Tuesday which I’m...
2010-08-14
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The week that was Friday 23 July 2010
Its been a busy week this week. From troubleshooting several production issues to writing some incremental load SSIS scripts, the...
2010-07-23
517 reads
Raining Tuesday – Cricket Cancelled – Replication Stinks - SQL BITS VOTE NOW!
Well this was going to be replication post, but I have read it, re-written it, read it, re-written and it...
2010-07-20
667 reads
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