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I try to keep a pretty tight lid on the comments to the blog because there's a lot of SPAM...
2010-03-25
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Brian Kelley
- Interests: Chess, Reading, Soccer (Football), Baseball, Animals, Theology
Avoiding Plagiarism
Having gone to an academic magnet school, I have quite a few friends who are teaching at the university level...
2010-03-24
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Don't Throw Something New In At Production Deployment
This post comes from a conversation I had with a developer last week as well as my experiences over the...
2010-03-22
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When It "Has" to Use SA...
As an infrastructure and security architect, I cringe any time any one mentions the following:
Domain AdminrootsaThose accounts can do anything...
2010-03-19
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New Goal: Security Presentation for End Users on Social Media
Cross-posted from the Goal Keeping DBA:
In recent days I’ve seen folks jump on Facebook groups and become fans of pages...
2010-03-18
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Working for/with High Caliber Folks
Within a couple of days of each other, both Andy Leonard (@AndyLeonard) and Paul Randal (@PaulRandal) tweeted about possible job opportunities which would...
2010-03-12
1,855 reads
PASS Summit to Stay in Seattle
PASS has released the survey results as well as its decision about where to hold future Summit events. The decision...
2010-03-10
1,981 reads
Upgraded to Model
That's right, folks, I'm now a model. Or at least, a model DB. Tom LaRock released his most recent rankings and...
2010-03-10
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Focus on Your Passion
Tuesday night I was having a conversation with my younger son, whom we call Turtle. It's a nickname that came...
2010-03-04
1,083 reads
Baby Steps to Learning Something New
I had a really bad habit of trying to jump into the middle of something I didn't know very well,...
2010-03-03
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Blogs
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...
Self-Hosting a Photo Server the Whole Family Can Use
By Bert Wagner
Until recently, my family's 90,000+ photos have been hidden away in the depths of...
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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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