SQL PASS ERC: How to Score the Interview?
One of the topics the Election Review Committee has discussed is how best to score the interview portion. Because of...
2011-04-06
1,353 reads
Brian Kelley
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Epsilon Data Breach and Staying Safe
By now, you may have received an email from one of the larger businesses you've given your email address to...
2011-04-05
757 reads
A SQL Story in Eleven Words or Less
Tom LaRock (blog | twitter) proposed a Meme Monday and his first choice of topics was to write a SQL Server...
2011-04-04
698 reads
Isolating SQL Server from other systems
In a recent explanation about the RSA breach, Rick Wanner wrote on the Internet Storm Center (ISC) Diary:
The traditional paradigm...
2011-04-04
2,147 reads
Reflections on Dev Connections / SQL Connections
When SQL Connections in the spring was announced, the folks at Red Gate and SQL Server Central reached out to...
2011-04-01
842 reads
Presenting with a Mac
My name is Brian Kelley and I used to be a PC bigot. That was back in 1989. I was...
2011-03-31
1,569 reads
Improving Meetings
Most folks I know hate meetings. They especially hate meetings about meetings. Recently I was working with a developer who...
2011-03-30
2,096 reads
On Leadership - Lead from the Front
This topic actually came up at SQL Saturday #70 - Columbia, SC. I spent the first 15 years of my life...
2011-03-29
2,163 reads
Configuring Kerberos Authentication
Longtime author Brian Kelley brings us a new article on security and Kerberos authentication in SQL Server.
2011-03-28 (first published: 2008-12-11)
61,786 reads
Tip on Speaking (and Writing) Well – The Key Idea
Cross-posted from the Goal Keeping DBA blog:
In the September 2010 issue of Toastmaster magazine there’s a great article by Chris...
2011-03-28
1,275 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