Personal "Failure" Is Just a Result
I'm reading a book by two teens called Do Hard Things. It's a book which represents a rejection of the...
2010-03-02
978 reads
Brian Kelley
- Interests: Chess, Reading, Soccer (Football), Baseball, Animals, Theology
Plan for Failure
Notice I didn't title this "Plan to Fail." We should never plan to fail. That's sabotage. And that ain't right,...
2010-02-24
1,018 reads
Quest POTW Webcast on SQL Injection Now Available
Back a couple of weeks ago I had the privilege of participating in a Pain of the Week webcast with Kevin...
2010-02-23
1,372 reads
What Does It Look Like When Everything Is Okay?
I'm a big believer in looking at systems when everything is okay. I'm not the only one, as Joe Richards, a...
2010-02-22
867 reads
On Ethics
I was having a conversation recently with a friend and former co-worker of mine. He's bounced around here and there,...
2010-02-19
797 reads
Why I Don't Like Microsoft Access
After seeing Brent Ozar's Top 10 Reasons Why Access Doesn't Rock, and seeing all the comments it generated, I figured...
2010-02-15
4,290 reads
POTW Webcast with Kevin Kline
Today I'll be tagging along with Kevin Kline for the Quest Pain of the Week webcast. We'll be talking about...
2010-02-11
943 reads
Knowing how to use ATTRIB
ATTRIB is one of those commands back from the days of DOS which most folks don't even realize it's there....
2010-02-03
2,176 reads
Why You Should Volunteer for a Code Camp / SQL Saturday
This past weekend I was at the Columbia Code Camp, which was a rousing success with 6 tracks, a number...
2010-02-01
1,100 reads
Columbia Code Camp 2010
We're making a final push to let everyone know about the Columbia Code Camp 2010, which happens tomorrow, January 30....
2010-01-29
1,487 reads
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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