Now exactly which proposal is this
Introduction
Oft times we are forced into situations where we clearly need to think outside of the box. A case at...
2016-03-10 (first published: 2016-03-01)
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SQL Server 2014 Launch Party Mississauga Ontario (Toronto) June 21, 2014
This event promises to be a highlight of the Canadian SQL Server calendar year.
The presenters are all 'first class'.
All...
2014-05-27
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SQL Server 2012 and 2014 and Windows 8.1 Professsional CPU goes up to 100% all freezes and Analysis Services Crashes
<p>Hi All This is a note that I just sent out. I hope that this helps those contemplating upgrading to...
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Master Data Services for the Beginner Part 03
Introduction
In yesterday’s discussion we looked at creating entities and their related attributes. We learnt that a ‘model’ could be very...
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Master Data Services for the Beginner Part 06
Introduction
The consumers of our data wish to be able to make stock and financial decisions from our data. Turning raw...
2014-02-02
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Master Data Services for the Beginner Part 05
Introduction
In yesterday’s discussion we looked at creating a current flag, creating views and looking at some of our data. Today...
2014-02-01
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Master Data Services for the Beginner Part 02
Introduction
In the first part of this discussion, I discussed step by step instructions pertaining to getting up and running with...
2014-01-29 (first published: 2014-01-27)
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Master Data Services for the Beginner Part 04
Introduction
In yesterday’s discussion we looked at populating entities and their related attributes. In today’s discussion we shall be concentrating on...
2014-01-29
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Master Data Services for the Beginner Part 01
Introduction
About 12 months ago, I started to look at Master Data Services in a serious manner. I had toyed with...
2014-01-26
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Master Data Services Disaster Recovery Challenges
Introduction
While Master Data Services is the best tool to come along to permit user to update their qualitative and quantitative...
2014-01-25
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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