SSWUG Free SSIS Expo – Today!
SSWUG Free Expo Event: Basic and Complex SSIS Features virtual conference is today! There’s a chance that you can probably...
2011-02-18
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StrateSQL
CHD Awareness Week
Do you know about congenital heard defects (CHD)? Did you know that February 7-14 is the week dedicated to making...
2011-02-14
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February PASSMN Meeting This Week
PASSMN meeting is this week on Tuesday. Without further ado…
Meeting Details
Here are the details on the meeting location and time:
Date:February...
2011-02-14
527 reads
Writing A Month Long Blog Series
You might wake up one day soon and think, “Hey, wouldn’t it be cool to write a month long blog...
2011-02-14
603 reads
Can You Dig It? – Find Estimated Cost
She can dig it!
D Sharon PruittIt’s the eighth post in the plan cache series. I hadn’t expect to take as...
2011-02-11
894 reads
Iowa PASS Presentation Materials
Driving to the User Group
This past Wednesday I took a drive down to the Iowa SQL Server Users Group meeting. ...
2011-02-11
471 reads
31 Days of SSIS Conclusion
31 Days of SSIS
Last month, I published the 31 Days of SSIS blog series. As a conclusion to that series,...
2011-02-10
769 reads
SQL Server MVP Daily Paper
A while back, I started a twitterlist of SQL Server MVPs. I wasn’t really sure why, but I just thought...
2011-02-10
543 reads
February PASSMN Meeting Announced
If you are looking for a change to get together with other SQL Sever professionals in February to talk about...
2011-02-07
709 reads
PowerShell: Download List of SQL Server MVPs
Turtle Shell?!
This weekend, I was working on something that I will blog about later this week. As part of that,...
2011-02-07
747 reads
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...
Forums
Two foreign keys to the same table. Can't cascade deletes.
Not sure if this is really a relational theory question but it seems about...
Connecting Power BI to SSAS and effective user not working
Hi everyone, Below is a consolidated summary of what we validated Architecture & data...
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