Salary Survey
SQL Server Magazine has just published its annual salary survey. I don’t really recall how they did it in past...
2005-12-17
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Blog Posts
Crypt Packages for Perl
This is one of those "bang head here" issues. I was trying to install
Net::SSH::Perl, which basically drives SSH through Perl,...
2005-12-16
1,793 reads
Early Christmas
At least for me 🙂
My wife and I put an offer in on a house this past Monday and spent...
2005-12-16
1,378 reads
Missing some folks
In a community the size of SQL Server Central, it's natural for people
to come and go, especially with contributions to...
2005-12-15
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Anyone want to handle this?
I get a lot of email at SQLServerCentral.com on a variety of topics. Complaints about my writing, comments on the...
2005-12-14
1,448 reads
Simple script to show what drives all databases are on
Had a need for this the other day. We just needed a quick dump of which
drives each database was using....
2005-12-09
1,369 reads
Denver Launch
I wrote a little in the editorial, but I wanted to drop some other observations here.
First, apologies for not blogging...
2005-12-07
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New SQL Server 2005 Books Online available
I saw this first on Karen Watterson's blog. Microsoft has released an update to SQL Server 2005's Books Online:
Download
A quick...
2005-12-07
1,460 reads
SQL 2005 Certified
Maybe not certified, but I took the 70-441 test today and I thought it was relatively easy. The format was...
2005-12-02
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Updated my professional site
Slowly reworking my professional site at http://www.truthsolutions.com/
but as of right now it's more of a brochure site than anything else....
2005-11-30
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Blogs
Setting PK Names in Redgate Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
A customer was testing Redgate Data Modeler and complained that it auto-generated PK names....
Flyway Tips: AI Deployment Script Descriptions
By Steve Jones
With the AI push being everywhere, Redgate is no exception. We’ve been getting requests,...
A New Word: Fawtle
By Steve Jones
fawtle – n. a weird little flaw built into your partner that somehow only...
Forums
High Availability setup - has anyone seen this method?
Hi all, I recently moved to a new employer who have their HA setup...
Semantic Search in SQL Server 2025
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Semantic Search in SQL Server...
Encoding URLs
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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