Speaking at Events
G’day, I recently got the opportunity to speak at the “PASS Marathon, The New World of Data Privacy”. I had not spoken at a virtually event for quite some...
2019-05-28
5 reads
Marty
- Interests: Playing Guitar, Music Theory
- Website: http://martincatherall.com/
Azure Notebooks – a nice little tool.
Gday,
I’ve been playing with Azure notebooks lately and have found them invaluable as
A teaching aidA test sandboxI’ve been using Python...
2019-01-31
1,099 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #109 – Mentors and Mentees
G’day again,
So, it’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again, the blog party
started by Adam Machanic (
This time we're talking about people...
2018-12-11
166 reads
TSQL Tuesday #108 – Learning to Learn
G’day,
One attribute that I think is more relevant today than ever is to have a broad base of skills with...
2018-11-15
182 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #97 – We don’t need no Education! (or do we?)
TweetG’day,
Well, it’s T-SQL Tuesday time again -the blog party started by Adam Machanic (blog | twitter) and this month hosted by Mala Mahadevan. This...
2017-12-12
527 reads
Flexible connections and an old friend
TweetG’day,
Just lately I’ve found myself involved with an app that needed to run on a server and nearly always (although...
2017-11-26
441 reads
What would you tell your younger self?
TweetG’day,
Well, it’s T-SQL Tuesday time again -the blog party started by Adam Machanic (blog | twitter) and this month hosted by...
2017-07-11
623 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #90 – Shipping database changes
TweetG’day,
Well, it’s T-SQL Tuesday time again -the blog party started by Adam Machanic (blog | twitter) and this month hosted by...
2017-05-09
650 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #89 – New horizons and new opportunities!
TweetG’day,
TSQL Tuesday
I thought that I’d write a few words about this months T-SQL Tuesday -the blog party started by Adam...
2017-04-11
972 reads
SQL Saturday South Island, New Zealand (SSSI)
TweetG’day,
Saturday 8th April 2017 will see the biggest ever SQL Saturday South Island New Zealand. The event started in 2013...
2017-03-28
954 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...
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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