I have always read that 8060 bytes is the maximum size. This is stated over and over again in Books Online, the MS site and numerous other sites, including this one. However a post in our forum recently questioned this. I decided to verify the problem and do a little research.
2007-10-02 (first published: 2002-02-07)
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The Sarbanes-Oxley act has become a four letter word to many IT people in the US. Thankfully I only had to deal with it for about 9 months before I left to go work on my own, but it was a long 9 months. Especially since I did half the work with JD Edwards and then did it again with Peoplesoft 🙁
2007-10-01
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Doing payments for articles, expenses, and a few articles. This is definitely a paperwork day. As much as I like...
2007-10-01
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I almost forgot to record the podcast for tomorrow's editorial. In case you're a glutton for punishment, it's here. I'd...
2007-09-30
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Though it kind of looks like that. Here's the first video podcast.
Halo 3
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2007-09-29
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I responded in an interesting thread this morning where someone was looking for advice on what to monitor on their...
2007-09-28
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I have this data in the dbo.Commission table in a SQL Server 2022 database.
salesperson commission Brian 12 Brian 16 Andy 7 Andy 14 Andy 21 Steve 20 Steve NULLAll the data is a varchar, and I decide to run this query to get the totals for each salesperson.
SELECT SalesPerson
, AVG(TRY_PARSE(Commission AS int)) AS TotalCommission
FROM commission
GROUP BY SalesPerson
GO
What average commission is calculated for Steve? See possible answers