Power BI World Tour Is Coming to Charlotte
If you haven’t heard, Power BI is doing a world tour, eight cities in four months and Charlotte, NC is...
2018-07-17
249 reads
SQL Swimmer
New Logo Revealed
I’ve been pondering the creation of a logo for quite some time and I finally decided to go ahead with...
2018-07-17
218 reads
SQL Server Management Studio Tips & Tricks From Dr Greg Low
It’s been a bit slow in the US this week due to the American 4th of July holiday, but it’s...
2018-07-10 (first published: 2018-07-05)
3,477 reads
I’m Speaking At SQL Saturday Baton Rouge!
I am excited to announce that I have been selected to speak at SQL Saturday Baton Rouge (#749) on August...
2018-06-28
348 reads
New Session: Profiling Your Data
Data Quality is a huge issue, especially now with more and more data being created daily. According to Micro Focus...
2018-06-20
266 reads
Speaking At SalemSQL, A Kind Of Homecoming
I am so excited to announce that I will be giving my Data Types Do Matter session for the SalemSQL...
2018-06-14
248 reads
Analyzing Feedback From Music City Tech 2018
I recently presented two sessions at Music City Tech and just received my feedback. I got great feedback and looks...
2018-06-22 (first published: 2018-06-11)
1,464 reads
Getting Called Up
When baseball players are called up to the Major League from the Minor League it’s referred to as getting “Called...
2018-06-06
277 reads
Music City Tech Rocked!
I know Nashville is most famous for Country music, but in the recent years, it has become home to more...
2018-06-05
282 reads
I Am Speaking At Music City Tech
I am excited to announce that I have been selected to speak at Music City Tech held at Vanderbilt University...
2018-04-04
273 reads
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