Patrick

Patrick Keisler is a Senior CSA - Engineering for Microsoft with over 20 years of SQL Server experience working in various fields such as financial, healthcare, and government. You can follow him on Twitter or listen to him speak at various SQL Saturdays and user group meetings.

Twitter: @patrickkeisler
Website: https://www.patrickkeisler.com
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Capture Index Usage Statistics for Better Analysis

by Patrick

Everyday SQL

Starting with SQL Server 2005, Microsoft introduced Dynamic Management Views to help DBAs see what's going inside of SQL Server....

2012-10-23

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Which SQL Instance is Killing Your CPU?

by Patrick

Everyday SQL

You have 5 instances running. How do you know which one is killing your CPU?

As you can see from Windows...

2012-10-16

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Grant Execute Permission on All Stored Procedures

by Patrick

Everyday SQL

Right out of the box, SQL Server makes it pretty easy to grant SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE to all...

2012-10-10

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How to Make SQL Server Listen on Multiple Ports

by Patrick

Everyday SQL

Have you ever needed an instance of SQL Server to listen on multiple TCP/IP port numbers but didn't know how...

2012-10-05

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Use Powershell to Manage Idera SQL Diagnostic Manager

by Patrick

Everyday SQL

Idera SQL Diagnostic Manager (or as I call it "SQLdm") is a great monitoring and performance tuning tool that I...

2012-09-28

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Welcome to Everday SQL

by Patrick

Everyday SQL

My name is Patrick Keisler and I have been a Microsoft SQL Server DBA for over 12 years. During that...

2012-09-22

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Blogs

Setting PK Names in Redgate Data Modeler

A customer was testing Redgate Data Modeler and complained that it auto-generated PK names....

Flyway Tips: AI Deployment Script Descriptions

With the AI push being everywhere, Redgate is no exception. We’ve been getting requests,...

A New Word: Fawtle

fawtle – n. a weird little flaw built into your partner that somehow only...

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Forums

High Availability setup - has anyone seen this method?

By Paul Lancaster

Hi all, I recently moved to a new employer who have their HA setup...

Semantic Search in SQL Server 2025

By Deepam Ghosh

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Semantic Search in SQL Server...

Encoding URLs

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Encoding URLs

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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)
)
GO

If 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?

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