Day four of Summit – Keynote 2 #sqlpass
The keynote started out with Bill Graziano taking to the stage in a kilt and declaring that the second day...
2011-10-13
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Tim Radney
Summit Sessions Day 1 #sqlpass
Today was our first day to attend regular sessions. With over 189 sessions being offered over 3 days there are...
2011-10-13
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Day three of Summit Keynote
Last year we set out some very high goals. 1 million technical training hours, 250k members in the community, and...
2011-10-12
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Second Day of Summit
The second day of the Summit was full of even more pre-con’s. Word on the street last night is that...
2011-10-12
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First Day of Summit
My first day in Seattle has ended. My flight arrived around 12:30 and I was in good company with John Lang and Julie Smith on the same flight. We rode the light rail...
2011-10-12
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First Day of Summit
My first day in Seattle has ended. My flight arrived around 12:30 and I was in good company with John...
2011-10-11
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The PASS Summit is HERE!
Watching the twitter sphere it is apparent that many of the SQL Nation are in route to Seattle WA today....
2011-10-10
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It is all about giving so why not #sqlgive
Last year at the Summit I missed out on this really cool concept. Donate your unused items from your hotel....
2011-10-06
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Collect Database File Size with Powershell
I decided to start monitoring the amount of free space in my database files so that I can make sure...
2011-10-05
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SQL Saturday 97 has ended
Well it isn’t quite over for me just yet, I still have a flight home tomorrow and can’t wait to...
2011-10-02
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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...
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