SQL Server: Converting binary data to a hexadecimal string
Problem I have a requirement to convert the binary data inside a table column or variable to a hexadecimal string. Is it possible to directly convert the binary data...
2014-09-11
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SQL Server: Converting binary data to a hexadecimal string
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I have a requirement to convert the binary data inside a table column or variable to a hexadecimal string. Is...
2014-09-11
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September 2014 Las Vegas UG Meeting
Who is up for a little free learning this week? Besides the opulence and feast that was the 24 Hours of PASS (Summit Preview), we have more training in...
2014-09-10
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September 2014 Las Vegas UG Meeting
Who is up for a little free learning this week? Besides the opulence and feast that was the 24 Hours...
2014-09-10
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VMworld 2014 Wrap Up for Data Professionals
A few weeks ago I was fortunate enough to attend VMware’s VMworld 2014 conference in San Francisco, CA. The show...
2014-09-10
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[Off-Topic] Beating Childhood Cancer
Note: I feel this post is important enough to post across all my blogs.
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month here...
2014-09-09
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24 Hours of PASS Preview: Zero to Hero (I'm the Zero)
Hello Dear Reader! We are already away into the 24 Hours of PASS Summit Preview for 2014! I don't know...
2014-09-09
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Analysis Services Partitions
Partitions are a great feature in Analysis Services that allow you to split measure groups in to separate physical files....
2014-09-09 (first published: 2014-09-05)
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Clustered Columnstore Indexes – part 40 (“Compression Algorithms”)
Continuation from the previous 39 parts, starting from http://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/
It’s time to take a look into the algorithms that Microsoft is...
2014-09-09
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It’s All Fundamentals
I’m learning how to speak German. Interestingly enough, you don’t start off reading dissertations. Instead, you begin by learning the...
2014-09-09
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Blogs
Measuring RAG Solutions: Are We Retrieving the Right Information?
A RAG pipeline that answers questions in the demo is not the same thing...
Advice I Like: Lots of Ideas
By Steve Jones
“A multitude of bad ideas is necessary for one good idea” – from Excellent...
Microsoft Fabric Data Agents: Bringing Structured and Unstructured Data Together
By James Serra
Most enterprise questions do not live neatly in one place. The numbers may be...
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