Q&A: Dealing with Thousands of Databases
This is part one of a three-part series. I’ve mentioned in various places, including in blog posts on occasion, that my production SQL Server instance hosts several thousand (nearly...
2019-09-03
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alevyinroc
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SQL Saturday Boston: I’m Speaking!
It feels like SQL Saturday Albany just wrapped up, but I have another announcement to make. I am proud to announce that I have been selected to speak at...
2019-08-13
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A Day in the Life (4/?) - August 2, 2019
This is my fourth installment in a series responding to Steve Jones’s (blog | twitter) #SQLCareer challenge. I jotted down most of what I did through the day, filling...
2019-08-06
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SQL Saturday Albany Slides & Demo Code
Thanks to everyone who came out to see dbatools for the Uninitiated at SQL Saturday Albany on July 20th, 2019. I had a lot of fun sharing dbatools with...
2019-07-20
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SQL Saturday Albany NY 2019
I am pleased to announce that I will be presenting at SQL Saturday #855 in Albany, NY on July 20, 2019. Join me at 2 PM in room LC05...
2019-07-08
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dbatools One Point OH YEAH!
Announced at DataGrillen 2019 today, the amazing dbatools PowerShell module has officially released version 1.0. This is a tremendous milestone for the best Open Source project built for data...
2019-06-20
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dbatools One Point OH YEAH!
Announced at DataGrillen 2019 today, the amazing dbatools PowerShell module has officially released version 1.0. This is a tremendous milestone for the best Open Source project built for data...
2019-06-20
5 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #113 -A Database for the Great Outdoors
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday comes from Todd Kleinhans (blog | twitter) who wants to know what we’re doing with databases outside of work.
I’m curious- outside of work and...
2019-04-09
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T-SQL Tuesday #112 - The Cookie Jar
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday comes from Shane O’Neill (blog | twitter). He starts us off with this:
Dipping into the Cookie Jar is about when the going gets tough and...
2019-03-12
6 reads
Speaking
A place to collect abstracts & links to presentations I’ve given. Please be sure to check out my Sessionize profile as well.
Backup Basics with PowerShell and dbatools Abstract As...
2019-03-09
3 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