Free Training in October - SQL Saturdays Around the US
There are a number of SQL Saturday events around the country in October: Redmond, Gainesville, Orlando, Louisville, and Cedar Rapids. Read more about these events.
2009-09-24
1,897 reads
Articles
Blobs and Filestreams
In the next week or so I’ll be upgrading the SQL 2005 server that has the SQLSaturday database and I’m...
2009-09-24
1,829 reads
Multi-Tenant Data Architecture
The second article in our series about designing multi-tenant applications identifies three distinct approaches for creating data architectures.
2009-09-24
3,979 reads
Performance Improvement: Understanding
I'm going to try to lay out some general guidelines for performance improvement through improving understanding about what performance is, how to measure it, and finally solutions to common problems. This article will cover the core understanding of the performance conversation.
2009-09-24
3,790 reads
A Function to Split JSON Data
JSON is Javascript Object Notation and it's a format for exchanging data. New author Ric Vander Ark brings us an article that shows how to implement a function to split out the data into a table format and gives a number of examples for different data.
2009-09-23
41,082 reads
Interacticely sorting columns in SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services
Business Intelligence Developers Studio (aka BIDS) for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services makes creating engaging and dynamic reports nearly...
2009-09-23
1,678 reads
Mistake or #Fail
When things aren't done well or set up properly in your systems, is it a mistake or a failure? Steve Jones talks about the need for those working with technology to be sure that they are taking responsibility for being educated about how to do things.
2009-09-23
88 reads
Mistake or #Fail
When things aren't done well or set up properly in your systems, is it a mistake or a failure? Steve Jones talks about the need for those working with technology to be sure that they are taking responsibility for being educated about how to do things.
2009-09-23
170 reads
Mistake or #Fail
When things aren't done well or set up properly in your systems, is it a mistake or a failure? Steve Jones talks about the need for those working with technology to be sure that they are taking responsibility for being educated about how to do things.
2009-09-23
119 reads
Service Broker example on how to configure, send and receive messages
SQL Server 2008 and 2005 offer the Service Broker feature. In this tip we will go through the different components of service broker and step by step on how to setup Service Broker for a single database.
2009-09-23
3,250 reads
Blogs
2025 Wrapped for Steve
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
The Book of Redgate: Spread across the world
By Steve Jones
This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...
Merry Christmas
By John
Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...
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Question of the Day
The Large Encoded Value
I want to use the new BASE64_ENCODE() function in SQL Server 2025, but return a string that isn't large type. What is the longest varbinary string I can pass in and still get a varchar(8000) returned?
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