Do We Understand Data?
With the recent issue of Facebook/Cambridge Analytica and GDPR, I ask do we really understand "data"?
2018-06-01
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Scott Crosby
The Politics of SQL Security
Dealing with SQL Server security when the application it uses is full of security holes.
2016-05-23
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Getting It Right First Time. Almost?
Mistakes happen but how can we minimize them and deal with them whey they do happen?
2014-08-05
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Wandering Towards The Lonely Cloud?
Are all RDBMS heading towards "The Cloud"? Is this something we DBAs and consultants should be doing for our client?
2014-06-05
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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