Slowly Changing Facts
This article describes a design pattern for storing “effective dated" changes to fact tables.
2013-10-18 (first published: 2010-12-22)
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Incremental Data Loading Using CDC
Describes a design pattern for using CDC to power fast and efficient incremental data loads.
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This article describes a technique of using FULL JOINs to compare two datasets within a numerical tolerance.
2013-04-23 (first published: 2010-09-27)
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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