SQL Saturday Dallas Update
Just a quick update on the SQL Saturday event we are planning for the Dallas area next year. Late last...
2009-09-13
666 reads
Tim Mitchell
Updating Existing Data with SSIS
I see a lot of questions on the forums about updating existing data in SSIS. When the update is dynamic...
2009-09-10
22,355 reads
SpeakerRate – Need Your Feedback
Everybody loves a compliment. Not everyone enjoys criticism, even if it’s constructive and politely delivered, but the fact is that...
2009-09-08
766 reads
24 Hours of PASS - Recap
At times it felt like a party, it had enough content to be a mini-conference, and we learned that some...
2009-09-03
869 reads
Keeping a Low Profile
I’ve been mostly offline for the last ten days or so, cutting back on blogging and forum participation and mostly...
2009-09-01
556 reads
Pass Board of Directors
As you’ve no doubt heard or read, the call for nominations for the PASS Board of Directors is open until...
2009-08-27
585 reads
A New Identity
Well, perhaps not a whole new identity, just a consolidation of multiple facets of my online persona. For several years...
2009-08-23
533 reads
The Netbook: 40 Days In
I wrote last month about purchasing a new Toshiba netbook to supplement my mobile computing arsenal. Forty days later, I’m...
2009-08-22
610 reads
SQL Lunch
Baton Rouge SQL Server group leader and recent SQL Saturday host Patrick LeBlanc is putting together a new learning series. ...
2009-08-21
699 reads
Don’t Use USE (in SSIS, at least)
I ran into a situation this week that brought to light a subtle syntactical error I’d made in creating an...
2009-08-19
755 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
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