SQL Server Management Studio: Video Tutorial
SQL Server Management Studio is the all in one tool for developers and DBAs alike to work with SQL Server....
2017-07-25
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Gethyn Ellis
Installing SQL Server: Video Tutorial
In this video I talk you through installing SQL Server 2017 RC1 on Windows Server 2016 virtual machine. It’s a...
2017-07-24
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Building Always On Availability Groups - Part 1
Introduction
By David Postlethwaite
Ensuring that your databases can survive a major outage such as a server failure and can continue to...
2017-07-14 (first published: 2017-07-03)
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Dynamic Data Masking
By David Postlethwaite
Introduction
Dynamic data masking is a really useful new tool in SQL Server 2016. Keeping data safe is one...
2017-05-09
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Always Encrypted
By David Postlethwaite
Always Encrypted is new features in SQL Server 2016 and it is also available in Azure SQL Database....
2017-05-01 (first published: 2017-04-24)
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2 Great Courses For Databases Professionals - Deal Of the Week
I received the email from Learning Tree on Wednesday with their weekly offer of courses running in the London Education...
2017-04-21
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What is SQL Server?
I’ve been playing around with YouTube, making some tutorial videos on SQL Server and it’s been a fun process so...
2017-04-20
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Gethyn Ellis:My SQL Server You Tube Channel
Its been an interesting weekend at gethynellis.com I have been attempting to put together a SQL Server YouTubechannel. I’m planning...
2017-04-10
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UK Contracting: Brexit, Dividend Tax and IR35 Having a Huge Impact
At the end of March I wrote a couple of posts discussing the state of IT industry. It looked at...
2017-04-07
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Dividend Tax Changes and Brexit – Damaging to UK IT company creation
In my previous post titled UK Budget 2017 –The Death Knell for Small Business? We scratched the surface in discussing...
2017-04-03 (first published: 2017-03-22)
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Blogs
SQL, MDX, DAX – the languages of data
By DataOnWheels
Ramblings of a retired data architect Let me start by saying that I have...
Setting PK Names in Redgate Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
A customer was testing Redgate Data Modeler and complained that it auto-generated PK names....
Flyway Tips: AI Deployment Script Descriptions
By Steve Jones
With the AI push being everywhere, Redgate is no exception. We’ve been getting requests,...
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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...
Semantic Search in SQL Server 2025
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Semantic Search in SQL Server...
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