Meme Monday: 11 Words or Less
Thomas LaRock (Blog | Twitter) has started a community blog series call Meme Monday.
Here’s my entry:
Community is nice, but displaces work if...
2011-04-04
732 reads
SQL Saturday #63 – Dallas: Wrap-up
SQL Saturday #63 – Dallas was a great event. The venue was great, although parking was a little unclear (I had...
2011-04-04
788 reads
SQL Saturday #63 – Dallas: Resources
I had the opportunity to present my “What Can You Do With PowerShell?” session in Dallas at SQL Saturday #63....
2011-04-02
642 reads
Change SQL Startup Parameters with PowerShell
Backups Abound
The Annoyance
Sometimes when we’re trying to track down a problem and looking through SQL’s Logs we have to dig...
2011-03-31
14,333 reads
NOLOCK for Developers
What is NOLOCK?
NOLOCK is a table hint for SQL Server that tells the engine to not take locks and ignore...
2011-03-25
1,746 reads
SQLskills Immersion Event on Internals and Performance – Day 5
Overview
Today was the fifth and final day of the Internals & Performance immersion event. I have really enjoyed learning from not...
2011-02-26
1,781 reads
SQLskills Immersion Event on Internals and Performance – Day 4
Overview
We just finished the fourth day of SQLskills learning. Today was all on indexes and statistics. We learned about choosing...
2011-02-25
1,393 reads
SQLskills Immersion Event on Internals and Performance – Day 3
Overview
Today was mostly about Table Design, Partitioning, with a little of Indexing. Partitioning is a big, complex topics with a...
2011-02-24
472 reads
PowerShell Script for Paul’s Survey: how is your tempdb configured?
Paul Randal (b | t) posted a survey how is your tempdb configured? Since I just happen to be at a...
2011-02-23
744 reads
SQLskills Immersion Event on Internals and Performance – Day 2
Overview
Day two of the SQLskills Immersion Event is over and I have listed the interesting parts below. The food, again,...
2011-02-23
705 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