T-SQL Enhancement: THROW
When bulding solid T-SQL solutions, it is often necessary to implement some level of error handling. One of the most...
2011-06-14
1,194 reads
T-SQL Enhancement: Sequence
Many applications need sequentially incremental number as unique/primary key for records. SQL Server 2008 supports identity columns as the primary...
2011-06-07
538 reads
T-SQL Enhancements in SQL Server Denali (2011)
In the next couple of weeks we’ll do a series of blog posts with some of the T-SQL enhancements that...
2011-06-07
461 reads
Speaking at 24 Hours in the Cloud
On June 1st GITCA will run a 24 hour round-the-world virtual event focusing on Cloud Computing. Please visit http://sp.GITCA.org/sites/24Hours for...
2011-05-31
1,579 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
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...
Semantic Search in SQL Server 2025
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Semantic Search in SQL Server...
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