For better Sql code use fake tables
When unit testing code there is a really powerful feature that is either called mocking or faking or sometimes using...
2014-11-18
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Ed Elliott
Unit tests help document your code!
I recently had the chance honour to spend twenty minutes talking to Boris Hristov about testing with Sql Server for his Google Hangouts series, catch the video here
One of...
2014-11-02
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Unit tests help document your code!
I recently had the chance honour to spend twenty minutes talking to Boris Hristov about testing with Sql Server for...
2014-11-02
45 reads
Unit tests help document your code!
I recently had the chance honour to spend twenty minutes talking to Boris Hristov about testing with Sql Server for...
2014-11-02
61 reads
What collation variables take on in T-SQL
I was asked an interesting question about collations in sql server recently about where variables in a script got their collation's from. I really wasn't too sure of the...
2014-10-22
7 reads
What collation variables take on in T-SQL
I was asked an interesting question about collations in sql server recently about where variables in a script got their...
2014-10-22
41 reads
What collation variables take on in T-SQL
I was asked an interesting question about collations in sql server recently about where variables in a script got their...
2014-10-22
54 reads
DBAs - Step away from production
I have worked as a DBA and also as a Sql Server developer and in many roles had full access to production, it is OK though I know what...
2014-10-21
2 reads
DBAs - Step away from production
I have worked as a DBA and also as a Sql Server developer and in many roles had full access...
2014-10-21
39 reads
DBAs - Step away from production
I have worked as a DBA and also as a Sql Server developer and in many roles had full access...
2014-10-21
14 reads
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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