SQL PASS Summit 2009 - Day 2
Day two of the summit found me in the keynote, an interesting but much too long (2 hours) for comfort. ...
2009-11-03
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Tim Mitchell
SQL PASS Summit 2009 – Day 1
Day one for me began with a leisurely breakfast at Top Pot donuts with Jack Corbett, Andy Warren, and Don...
2009-11-03
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SQL PASS Summit 2009 – Day Zero
For me, today was the start of a six-day SQL Server adventure at the PASS Summit in Seattle. The day...
2009-11-01
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Don’t Be This Guy
I have a sad story to tell you. Sit down and grab a tissue.
It was 10pm on a cool night...
2009-10-29
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Electronic Health Records – What’s the Big Deal? (Part 2)
In the first installment of this discussion, I talked about the challenges facing database professionals and others with respect to...
2009-10-28
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PASS Board of Directors Election
Anyone who has an Internet connection has kept up with PASS-related news during the past couple of weeks is keenly...
2009-10-22
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I’m a Bingo Square!
If you meet me at PASS, you can win prizes!
OK, so maybe there’s a little more to it than that. ...
2009-10-21
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Electronic Health Records – What’s the Big Deal? (Part 1)
Last week, I had lunch with an old friend who is, by his own definition, technologically ignorant. While we caught...
2009-10-19
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SQL Lunch Recap
Earlier this week, I delivered a presentation entitled “Deploying Report Builder 2.0 for Self-Service Reporting” as part of the new...
2009-10-14
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Do You Blog? The FTC May Be Watching
If you are a blogger and you post product reviews on your blog, you may have to answer to the...
2009-10-07
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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