Learn A Bit More
For this Friday's poll, Steve Jones talks about free training events and what their value is to you.
Learn A Bit More
For this Friday's poll, Steve Jones talks about free training events and what their value is to you.
Learn A Bit More
For this Friday's poll, Steve Jones talks about free training events and what their value is to you.
Troubleshooting Performance Problems in SQL Server 2008
This white paper provides step-by-step guidelines for diagnosing and troubleshooting common performance problems by using publicly available tools.
More Can Come From Less
Becoming a more productive employee should be a goal for most people. It can also greatly increase the enjoyment you get from your career. Steve Jones gives you some ideas that might help you.
Stop and Start Services - SQL School Video
SQL School covers a basic topic this week. MVP Andy Warren shows the various ways to stop and start your services.
Creating and managing Analysis Services partitions
S partitions from the ground up, with advice on binding, merging, and selecting partition data.
Identify last statement run for a specific SQL Server session
The process to return the last query statement executed is quite straight-forward and works in all versions of Microsoft SQL Server since DMOs (dynamic management objects) were integrated into SQL Server.
More Can Come From Less
Becoming a more productive employee should be a goal for most people. It can also greatly increase the enjoyment you get from your career. Steve Jones gives you some ideas that might help you.
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