S–3–X Talk Week: Love, HR, and Sexy Shoes
We’re conducting S–3–X Talk Week here at the MidnightDBA #Awesomesauce blog. In the tradition of the first S-3-X week blog,...
2010-10-13
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SQL Awesomesauce
S–3–X Talk Week: This Totally Won’t be Awkward
We’re conducting S–E–X Talk Week here at the MidnightDBA #Awesomesauce blog, in honor of everyone’s favorite subject. In deference to the...
2010-10-11
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Forgotten T-SQL Cheat Sheet
You’ve seen the blog, you’ve downloaded the code…you even watched the 24HOP session recording…now own the Forgotten T-SQL Cheat Sheet!
Yessir,...
2010-10-11
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New Hotness: sys.objects and sys.schemas
Last month we talked about the old and busted syscomments- and the new hotness that is sys.sql_modules – for pulling code out of...
2010-10-08
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Today I Blog About Certifications (Instead of Studying)
I'm not in it for the money...exclusively...
I was talking to the older kids about homework yesterday, and I mentioned that...
2010-10-07
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How MUCH More Do You Make?
Yesterday, my SQLServerCentral.com editorial Why are we still talking about Women in Tech? was published, and we had a fine...
2010-10-07
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Tip: OVER and PARTITION BY
Here’s a quick summary of OVER and PARTITION BY (new in SQL 2005), for the uninitiated or forgetful…
OVER
OVER allows you...
2010-10-05
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Dear Users…Sincerely, Your IT Guys
Dear Users,
We, the tech people, understand that you just want technology to work so you can get your jobs done. ...
2010-09-30
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How to Prove a Fact (Again)
Sean’s latest rant – about a vendor with a dangerously small amount of SQL knowledge – has spurred me to talk about...
2010-09-29
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Journal: SQL Saturday #52
Friday
6am – up to catch an 8:30 flight. My daughter Lisette is going with me on this trip.
9:30am local time, we...
2010-09-27
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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,...
Forums
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