ASF 017 video invitation
What wasn’t really designed for people of guest’s stature? From who his every good decision does come from? New podcast...
2018-12-07
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Azure Player Blog
Speaking at SQL Saturday #782 Slovenia
In coming weekend I will be speaking at SQL Saturday in Ljubljana, Slovenia. I’m extra happy because I do it...
2018-12-06
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Azure Data Factory v2 and its available components in Data Flows
Many of you (including me) wonder about it. Namely: Is it possible to move my ETL process from SSIS to...
2018-12-05
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Last week reading (2018-12-02)
Hello folks, This is a quick roundup of Internet posts from last week. Have a good reading! Create and configure...
2018-12-02
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ASF 016: Chris Webb interview
Introduction Chris Webb is independent consultant specialising in Analysis Services, MDX, Power Pivot, DAX, Power Query and Power BI in...
2018-11-23
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Last week reading (2018-11-18)
No, you don’t need a blockchain Thomas LaRock (T) says: “Don’t buy a blockchain solution unless you know for certain...
2018-11-18
211 reads
ASF 016 video invitation
“Power BI is just growing and growing and getting better and better at an amazing rate.” Who said that? Watch...
2018-11-16
198 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #108 – Non SQL Server Technologies
It’s T-SQL Tuesday #108. This month’s topic is hosted by Malathi Mahadevan (B|T) and she asks us to… “pick one...
2018-11-13
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Last week reading (2018-11-11)
Hello folks, how are you today? It was a very comprehensive week and many of my friends returned home after...
2018-11-11
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SQL Relay became Data Relay 2018
It was very long and hard-working week (8.10-12.10). I was with my data-geek #SQLfamily and friends at the (SQL) Data...
2018-11-07
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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