SQL Server Community Events
By David Postlethwaite
I have just come back from a successful SQL Saturday in Vienna, Austria where I had 60 people...
2017-01-26
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Gethyn Ellis
SQL Server 2016 SP 1
By David Postlethwaite
SQL Server 2016 SP1 was released in November 2016 only five months after the initial release.
There have been...
2017-01-18 (first published: 2017-01-09)
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gethynellis.com 2016 Review
The year gone was an interesting year for gethynellis.com and GRE Solutions. Any year that has a new release of...
2017-01-05
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Merry Christmas
Yesterday was the last working day before Christmas at GRE Towers. We’ve got today off. So this is just a...
2016-12-23
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Treat Yourself to a Training Christmas Present
Its the week before Christmas. Party season is in full swing. Its a time for reflection on the year gone...
2016-12-15
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Bree's first blog post... Amazing training deals
Gethyn will be getting me to update this every week, there are some awesome training deals available for £750 + VAT....
2016-11-28
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An early Christmas present - Great Value SQL Server Training the Decemeber
No No, not my new hat, although it is rather splendid. I have received the weekly email from Learning Tree listing...
2016-11-21
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Big Data, Network Security, SQL Programming, PRINCE2, Baby save a little 2 for me
This weeks Learning Tree deals are in. If you want to learn about big data, Network security and with the...
2016-11-09
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Do you know anything about firebird?
Has anyone in my network or readers my blog have any experience of a database called Firebird?
If you have and...
2016-11-09
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Trick or Treat...Have I got an IT Training treat for you...
It Trick or Treat on Monday...Two days on and I have a treat for you. Learning Tree's Great Value IT...
2016-11-02
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Blogs
SQL, MDX, DAX – the languages of data
By DataOnWheels
Ramblings of a retired data architect Let me start by saying that I have...
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Semantic Search in SQL Server 2025
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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