2015-05-25
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Editorial
Native Audits
This week Steve Jones asks if you're using the SQL Audit feature built into SQL Server.
2015-05-22
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Naming Confusion
The naming of systems and other technological constructs is always a debate within groups. Steve Jones points out a few places where this might actually prevent mistakes.
2015-05-21
134 reads
Controlling Alerts
Being on call is not much fun for anyone, but it can certainly be hard on those that receive lots of calls for systemic issues. Are there better ways to manage this?
2015-05-20
135 reads
2019-06-14 (first published: 2015-05-19)
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Awareness
This week Steve Jones looks back at the T-SQL Tuesday blog part and its theme of monitoing.
2015-05-18
76 reads
Boring or Scripting
There is no shortage of mundane tasks at work. Steve Jones notes that you might not want to depend on those to fill your day in the future.
2024-11-20 (first published: 2015-05-18)
445 reads
Documenting with Tests
The idea of using more unit tests to improve code quality has been around for some time. However Steve Jones notes today that some people use tests for documentation.
2019-10-04 (first published: 2015-05-14)
276 reads
2015-05-13
833 reads
Opening Up Data
Tim O'Reilly, head of O'Reilly publishing, has been an advocate of better date movement in the world. Steve Jones has a few comments on an interview he gave earlier this year.
2015-05-12
98 reads
Blogs
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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