2014 PASS Summit 2014 Board Q&A Notes
As has occurred in previous years at the PASS Summit the PASS Board of Directors held an open Q&A session...
2014-11-17
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Kendal Van Dyke
PASS Chapter Leaders - Remember To Talk About Elections With Your Chapters!
Last week before our monthly MagicPASS meeting I went through my usual routine of grabbing the PASS chapter deck and...
2014-09-23
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Presenting At OPASS August 2014 Meeting On 8/28
Thursday night (8/28) I'll be presenting Inspector Insert And The Case Of The Mistaken IDENTITY for the Orlando SQL User...
2014-08-27
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Thoughts On The 2014 PASS Summit Selections
The session lineup for the 2014 PASS Summit was announced today and I'm honored to be selected as a presenter....
2014-06-25
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I'm A Candidate For The 2014 PASS Nomination Committee
The 2014 PASS election cycle begins today when voting opens for the Nomination Committee (NomCom) and I'm one of eleven...
2014-06-03
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Using sys.objects When Scripting Permissions? You're Missing Something!
I suspect most DBAs have a script in their T-SQL toolbelt which scripts out database permissions for a specific user...
2014-02-04
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How To Get The TableDiff Utility
Tablediff is a command line utility that comes with SQL Server to compare the data and schema in two tables...
2013-12-05
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Windows 8.1 Upgrade Deletes VirtualBox Host-Only Network Adapter
Windows 8.1 was released to the Windows Store last week and aside from having to download the same 3.9 GB...
2013-10-22
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SQL Power Doc Update - Version 1.0.2.1
I'm at the 2013 PASS Summit in Charlotte, NC, this week, and presented a session about documenting your databases using...
2013-10-17
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What Does The PASS Community Mean To You?
In less than 72 hours I'll be in Charlotte with over 3,000 of my closest SQL Server friends for the...
2013-10-11
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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