SQL In The City: Austin
So, No SQL Saturday in Austin This Year.
I know a lot of folks were disappointed that we (POSSE) weren’t able to pull together in...
2012-09-25
1,041 reads
Wesley Brown
- Interests: Collecting old computers
- Skills: I talk a lot.
Demystifying SQL Server Differential Database Backups
Odd Man Out
SQL Server has three backup types. Two you have heard of and used. One, while useful, isn’t very well understood.
Let’s...
2012-09-10 (first published: 2012-09-06)
2,802 reads
Free Tools for Testing SQL Sever
You Need To Test Your SQL Server!
Its like screaming “TEST THE BREAKS ON YOUR CAR!” If you don’t have the...
2012-08-16
2,250 reads
Speaking at PASS Summit 2012
It’s Not A Repeat
Speaking at the PASS Summit last year was one of the highlights of my career. I had...
2012-08-14
737 reads
SQL Rally 2012 Recap
Much Learning Was Had By All
SQL Rally 2012 had a diverse group of speakers and something for all levels of...
2012-05-14
852 reads
Speaking In April #SQLSat111 and #SQLSat107
All Quite on the Western Front
It is going to get noisy soon though! I”m speaking at SQLSaturday #111 in Atlanta...
2012-04-10
962 reads
Solid State Disks and SQL Server
An interesting result from a recent test of SSDs in SQL Server by Wes Brown. A surprising discovery is important for anyone thinking about using SSDs to know.
2012-03-09 (first published: 2010-04-08)
36,255 reads
2011 What A Great Year
What A Diffrince A Year Makes
In January I posted up my new years list basically, stuff I wanted to learn in...
2011-12-22
1,027 reads
SQLSaturday 97 Speaker Recap
Great Content + Great Speakers = Awesome Event
All the evaluations have been tallied, its official SQLSaturday #97 was a hit! As a...
2011-11-22
796 reads
SQL Server 2012 RC0 Is Here
SQL Server 2012 Release Candidate 0, Time To Get Serious
With the release of RC0 Microsoft has signaled that the release...
2011-11-21
1,527 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