Forcing SQL Agent Jobs to Fail When Remote Procedures Timeout
Your SQL Agent Jobs may be silently failing when using Linked Servers.
2016-05-02
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Read-Only Routing for Non-Microsoft Clients
An alternative read-only routing technique for non-Microsoft clients.
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The Case for Specifying Data Types and Query Performance
Performance penalties for omitting SQL data types when using ADO.Net or light weight ORMs.
2015-06-22
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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