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I try to keep a pretty tight lid on the comments to the blog because there's a lot of SPAM...
2010-03-25
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Databases – Infrastructure – Security
Avoiding Plagiarism
Having gone to an academic magnet school, I have quite a few friends who are teaching at the university level...
2010-03-24
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Don't Throw Something New In At Production Deployment
This post comes from a conversation I had with a developer last week as well as my experiences over the...
2010-03-22
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When It "Has" to Use SA...
As an infrastructure and security architect, I cringe any time any one mentions the following:
Domain AdminrootsaThose accounts can do anything...
2010-03-19
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New Goal: Security Presentation for End Users on Social Media
Cross-posted from the Goal Keeping DBA:
In recent days I’ve seen folks jump on Facebook groups and become fans of pages...
2010-03-18
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Working for/with High Caliber Folks
Within a couple of days of each other, both Andy Leonard (@AndyLeonard) and Paul Randal (@PaulRandal) tweeted about possible job opportunities which would...
2010-03-12
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Upgraded to Model
That's right, folks, I'm now a model. Or at least, a model DB. Tom LaRock released his most recent rankings and...
2010-03-10
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PASS Summit to Stay in Seattle
PASS has released the survey results as well as its decision about where to hold future Summit events. The decision...
2010-03-10
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Focus on Your Passion
Tuesday night I was having a conversation with my younger son, whom we call Turtle. It's a nickname that came...
2010-03-04
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Baby Steps to Learning Something New
I had a really bad habit of trying to jump into the middle of something I didn't know very well,...
2010-03-03
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Blogs
SQL, MDX, DAX – the languages of data
By DataOnWheels
Ramblings of a retired data architect Let me start by saying that I have...
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,...
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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...
Semantic Search in SQL Server 2025
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Semantic Search in SQL Server...
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