Prakash Heda

Prakash Heda works as Sr. Database Administrator at Advent Software. His expertise includes Performance Tuning/Troubleshooting, high availability, SAN configuration and windows administration. He has 13+ years of experience managing enterprise-wide data needs in both high volume transactional and data warehouse environments. Prakash holds certifications for MCDBA and MCITP. His background includes administration & development using VB/ASP/SSIS using SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008/R2 and SQL server 2012. He is an active member of PASS, SQL Saturday. He’s a frequent presenter at user groups, SQL Saturdays, and other community events. He is also an avid tweeter, blogger and runner.
  • Interests: Computers, Chess, Reading

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The new Vector datatype in SQL Server 2025 is a binary type that has a few parameters. What parameters are required?

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