Chris Yates

Chris Yates is a Database Administration Manager with over thirteen years of experience in the SQL industry. His experience includes design and implementation of both OLTP and OLAP solutions as well as assessment and implementation of SQL Server environments for best practices, performance, and high availability solutions accompanied by a strong development background. He enjoys helping others in the SQL Server community and does this by contributing on several SQL forums, creating “The SQL Professor”, and speaking at several SQL functions. His passion and focus is not only with technology but also helping others along their way and career path.

Blink – Year is gone

by Chris Yates

The SQL Professor

As the door begins to knock I start to wonder who it can be. As I begin to open it...

2014-12-22

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T-SQL Tuesday #61 – Giving Back

by Chris Yates

The SQL Professor

It just seems to me that these block parties of T-SQL Tuesday come quicker each month. I’m always thrilled when...

2014-12-12 (first published: 2014-12-09)

4,586 reads

SQL Sentry Plan Explorer – Don’t Leave Home Without It

by Chris Yates

The SQL Professor

If you’ve been around me long enough then you realize that I am a Red Gate fanatic. With that said...

2014-12-09

1,146 reads

PASS Summit 2014 ~ My GameTime Experience

by Chris Yates

The SQL Professor

“How did you like your convention?”
“How was your trip?”
“What did you learn?”
“Where did you go for a week?”
“Who did you...

2014-11-25

1,540 reads

What Are You Thankful For

by Chris Yates

The SQL Professor

Bob Pusateri (B | T) wrote a blog post yesterday for anyone who was interested on sharing what they were thankful...

2014-11-18

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T-SQL Tuesday #60 Roundup – Step Right Up

by Chris Yates

The SQL Professor

We had a great turnout for this months T-SQL Tuesday Block Party. Coming into this month and knowing that I...

2014-11-16

614 reads

T-SQL Tuesday #60 Something New Learned

by Chris Yates

The SQL Professor

So, here it is. I put the challenge out to discuss something new learned last week. I was fortunate enough...

2014-11-11

604 reads

T-SQL Tuesday #60 – Something New Learned

by Chris Yates

The SQL Professor

Lights go on, it’s another game day, grabbed my bat and headed for the plate only this time we are...

2014-11-05

569 reads

Im At Summit Now What?

by Chris Yates

The SQL Professor

Pass Summit 2011 – Photo Provided by Pat Wright
We are a week out from PASS Summit 2014 and there will be...

2014-10-28

589 reads

The Question – Why?

by Chris Yates

The SQL Professor

The question I get asked a lot by other data professionals at conferences, events, speaking engagements, family, friends, etc. is...

2014-10-14 (first published: 2014-10-06)

5,943 reads

Blogs

The Book of Redgate: Spread across the world

This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...

Merry Christmas

Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...

Self-Hosting a Photo Server the Whole Family Can Use

Until recently, my family's 90,000+ photos have been hidden away in the depths of...

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SQL Server 2025 Backup Compression Algorithm

By Johan Bijnens

Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Server 2025 Backup Compression...

The Large Encoded Value

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

Comments posted to this topic are about the item The Large Encoded Value

The Side Job

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

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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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