Mustafa Elmasry

Mustafa Elmasry is Microsoft Principle database consultant working as DBA for more than +10 Years I have a very good high level of knowledge about Database Migration, Consolidation, Performance Tuning, Automation Using T-SQL, and PowerShell and so many other tasks I am working as a freelancer and I do many of projects in multiple customers (Governmental and Private Sector ) here in KSA as of now, I am working in Banking sector AS Database Consultant Engineer managing the core banking system that is hosted in SQL Server Database 8 TB and other 200 SQL Server Clusters
I am Microsoft certified 2008 and 2016 in SQL Server (2x MCTS, 2x MCTIP, MCSA, MCSE) and I am Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) also I am azure Certified (AZ-900, AZ-103) also I was awarded by Microsoft Azure Heroes 3 times as (Azure Content hero, Azure Community hero and Azure Mentor) for more information about my experiences and my activity for spreading the knowledge please check my web page https://mostafaelmasry.com/about-me/
  • Tagline: DB Cloud Tech
  • Interests: SQL Server , Azure , Data Engineer
  • Blog: https://mostafaelmasry.com/
  • Jobs: Independent SQL Server Consultant
  • Skills: SQL Server , Azure

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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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