SQLBits XI recently announced
When I saw an email from SQLBits announcing SQLBits XI in East Midlands in my inbox this morning, it simply...
2012-11-14
828 reads
Art
Your online security is only as good as the weakest link
Over the weekend I received an email supposedly from Microsoft Live wanting me to verify my account and provided a...
2012-10-26 (first published: 2012-10-24)
1,660 reads
OVER() clause two simple ways on two different days
I’ve been aware of this clause in TSQL for a long time, but I’ve never really used it. Mainly because...
2012-09-26
1,079 reads
Suppressing namespace attributes in nested select statements when using FOR XML workaround
I was helping out on the forums the other day with a user who had stumbled across the quirk of...
2012-08-28
6,762 reads
Script to find orphaned/unreachable job steps within your SQL jobs
SQL jobs are great as the SQL agent job engine allows for very granular control over jobs that are created...
2012-08-23
2,591 reads
Using XQuery to transform multiple xml nodes to a single xml node with comma separated string value
Not another comma separated string blog post I hear you say! I know that this topic has probably been done...
2012-07-13
6,744 reads
Moving xml child elements to its parent using XQuery
I haven’t been able to do much XQuery development recently which is a shame as I love developing with the...
2012-07-09
4,535 reads
Unable to activate a Windows 2003 VM on Hyper-V behind a proxy
Ok, so this is not strictly a post about SQL itself (and it's about a fairly old OS), but I...
2012-06-25
2,714 reads
Shredding a simple xml structure to a single row flat table
I was helping out a user on the forums the other day where they were asking questions about shredding an...
2012-05-22 (first published: 2012-05-16)
5,370 reads
Command line to configure windows firewall for SQL server access
I regularly deploy SQL Server to new Windows Server 2008 hosts and one thing that I find quite a chore...
2012-05-10
3,800 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