T-SQL Tuesday #13–A Business Walks Into a Bar….
Hello and welcome to the December 2010 edition of T-SQL Tuesday. This month’s host is Steve Jones (blog|twitter) of SQLServerCentral,...
2010-12-14
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SQL Awesomesauce
All Things Awesome and MidnightDBA-y – 12/9/2010
Here’s the rundown of what we were up to last week
Friday night at 11pm CST we present another wildly appealing...
2010-12-13
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RTFM365, Week 1
Big lessons learned this week: 1, its’ always worthwhile to go back and reread the basics. 2, sys.sp_trace_create option 4 doesn’t...
2010-12-10
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Spotlight: Jes Borland
It’s been a few months…time for another Spotlight!
Just to catch you up, occasionally someone in the SQL community – usually someone...
2010-12-09
1,408 reads
24HOP Needs Women!
“Next 24 Hours of PASS on March 15-16 2011, celebrating Women’s History Month with 24 female speakers!”
Thus goes the announcement on...
2010-12-07
809 reads
Tip: Schema Qualify Objects in SPs
“Eat your broccoli.”
“Wear your gloves.”
“Schema qualify your objects.”
Your Mom wasn’t kidding, and she always gave the best advice. We’ve already...
2010-12-06
1,707 reads
RTFM365 Week 0
For the next year, I will read from SQL Server Books Online a little every day, and blog about it weekly. ...
2010-12-03
712 reads
All Things Awesome and MidnightDBA-y – 12/2/2010
I’ve got to figure out a good way to present a regular summary of what we do every week. Until...
2010-12-02
646 reads
RTFM365
Physicians have primum non nocere – a Latin phrase that means “First, do no harm”. (Thank you, WikiPedia.) I think for...
2010-12-01
591 reads
Holiday Review: Stuff I
For the last two years, I’ve participated in Sean’s InfoWorld Xmas Wish List, where we review a bunch of cool...
2010-11-24
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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