2014 Polar Plunge #SQLPlunge
In just a couple months… on March 1… I’m going to jump into a lake in Minnesota. Now it’s cold...
2014-01-14
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StrateSQL
Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #66
It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up. If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow...
2014-01-13
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Reblog: January 3 to January 9
Photo credit – JStove
Old posts are like unicorns. You might see them just once, but it’d sure be nice to have...
2014-01-10
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The DBA That Practices Database Restores
We are often told that we need to practice our restores. And it might not be obvious, but the reason...
2014-01-10
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I’m Speaking at the PASS BA Conference
This May PASS will be hosting their second annual Business Analytics (BA) Conference in San Jose, CA. The conference brings...
2014-01-07
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January 2014 – Monthly SQL Server Checklist
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It’s the first Monday of 2014. Time for a new year and some resolutions to be a better DBA....
2014-01-06
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Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #65
It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up. If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow...
2014-01-06
1,089 reads
12 Webcasts from Pragmatic Works Training On The T’s
In the past year, I’ve done a few presentations for Pragmatic WorksTraining on the T’s. If you aren’t familiar with Training...
2014-01-03 (first published: 2013-12-31)
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Reblog: December 27 to January 2
Photo credit – Scott Howard
I’ve always been a fan of the feeling when I find an old blog post that’s got...
2014-01-03
362 reads
Wrapping Up 2013
Last year, I did a wrap up post of the year (also 2011 and 2010) to see where I landed from...
2014-01-01
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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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High Availability setup - has anyone seen this method?
Hi all, I recently moved to a new employer who have their HA setup...
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