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Haven't been around for a while, but doing some interesting work with Database Refactoring and Effective Dating...more posts coming soon....
2010-03-10
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Sam Bendayan
Effective Dating Series Part I - The Problem
What are the benefits of Effective Dating and what problems does it solve?
2009-10-01
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Beware the REPLACE function when doing heavy string parsing
I found something interesting the other day. I was attempting to optimize a very heavy string parsing routine using T-SQL and was having problems. I don’t normally use T-SQL for such heavy string parsing, but this was a special case of a legacy structure that I had to work with, so I had no choice.
2009-08-27
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Beware the REPLACE function when doing heavy string parsing
I found something interesting the other day. I was attempting to optimize a very heavy string parsing routine using T-SQL...
2009-08-23
8,670 reads
Trouble printing out long VARCHAR(MAX) strings?
Ever try to print out a long VARCHAR(MAX)/NVARCHAR(MAX) string, only to find that it's truncated at 8,000/4,000 characters? How do you get around this? New author Sam Bendayan shows us how.
2009-07-29
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To Date or Not To Date….
OK….so I’m in the middle of a very interesting Effective Dating project…basically we’re dealing with some tables that only store current data, but there is a need for future-dated data as well. Because the base table can’t hold that data...
2009-05-18
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What's a DBA
Most of us are tired of this overused, vague term. How many of you have clicked on a 'DBA' job posting only to find that it's not what you do? Or asked for a DBA resume from a recruiter and gotten something other than what you expected? Or...
2009-05-14
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To Date or Not To Date….
OK….so I’m in the middle of a very interesting Effective Dating project…basically we’re dealing with some tables that only store...
2009-05-13
1,619 reads
Welcome to Sam Bendayan's 2 cents.....content coming soon...
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2009-05-12
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What's a 'DBA'?
Most of us are tired of this overused, vague term. How many of you have clicked on a 'DBA' job...
2009-05-12
1,189 reads
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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