High Availability Lingo
You have got to love the way the SQL Server team change the lingo in all of their high availability...
2012-08-13
1,110 reads
Chris McGowan
Cost Savings and Backup Compression
Let me set the scene, one of our internal IT SQL Servers which stores a whole host of performance metrics...
2012-08-08
1,837 reads
Database Tables
Today I was asked for "a list of all tables in all databases" on a particular instance of SQL Server. ...
2012-06-13
874 reads
Rebuilding System Databases
Today’s post is something I thought I would share as there is an awful lot of incorrect commands I have...
2012-04-02
810 reads
Why I don’t like maintenance plans
If you create a maintenance plan (SQL 9.0.3042) to backup databases and select All databases as below;
Then at some point...
2012-03-16
893 reads
How Resilient Is Your Recovery Plan?
In this modern age of technology DBA’s face an ever increasing demand from businesses; our databases must perform, be secure,...
2012-03-14
609 reads
A Script A Day Finished!
Well that's it, my "A Script A Day" series is finished. I hope you found the scripts I provided useful, I've used...
2012-03-03
569 reads
A Script A Day - Day 28 - String Manipulation
Today’s script is one that I used earlier this week. On Thursday I migrated a server from SQL Server 200...
2012-03-02
523 reads
A Script A Day - Day 29 - The Importance of Being Idle
Today’s script is also one I used in my migration on Wednesday. It again uses string manipulation to generate a...
2012-03-02
520 reads
A Script A Day - Day 25 - Performance Counters
Today’s script is based on performance counters and in particular the sys.dm_performance_counters DMV. There are many ways in which to...
2012-02-29
2,311 reads
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Encoding URLs
I have this data in a 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