Reliably Drop A Database With CLR Stored Procedure
After I read Greg Low’s post and my initial try, I kept on thinking that I need to come up...
2014-01-22 (first published: 2014-01-20)
2,346 reads
Jeffrey Yao
Reliably Drop A Database With CLR Stored Procedure
After I read Greg Low’s post and my initial try, I kept on thinking that I need to come up...
2014-01-20
423 reads
Reliably Drop A Database In T-SQL Script
I read with interests about Greg Low’s post “Reliably Dropping a Database in a T-SQL Script is Too Hard”, I...
2014-01-07
1,113 reads
Reliably Drop A Database In T-SQL Script
I read with interests about Greg Low’s post “Reliably Dropping a Database in a T-SQL Script is Too Hard”, I...
2014-01-07
411 reads
Thoughts About MS Advanced Certification
Now MS has decided to cancel all its advanced certifications. I am here to share some of my thoughts on...
2013-09-16
734 reads
Thoughts About MS Advanced Certification
Now MS has decided to cancel all its advanced certifications. I am here to share some of my thoughts on...
2013-09-16
386 reads
Agile Database Administration
I first heard the word “agile <something>” about 10 years ago, I do not have profound experience to what “agile...
2013-06-12
1,304 reads
Agile Database Administration
I first heard the word “agile <something>” about 10 years ago, I do not have profound experience to what “agile...
2013-06-12
346 reads
Database Administration KPIs – 2/2
In my last post, I discussed about the quantitative KPIs which, to me, are useful for “outsiders”, i.e. non-DBAs, to...
2013-05-10 (first published: 2013-05-04)
5,200 reads
Database Administration KPIs – 2/2
In my last post, I discussed about the quantitative KPIs which, to me, are useful for “outsiders”, i.e. non-DBAs, to...
2013-05-04
918 reads
Blogs
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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