Rajat Jaiswal

I am Rajat Jaiswal.
I have around 9 years of industry experience.
I have always found technology and programming to be very interesting and for me, programming is not something that ends when I step out of the office.
I love exploring new stuff and databases amuse me the most.
I started blogging in 2006 on http://rajatjaiswal.blogspot.com and http://indiandotnet.wordpress.com, http://sqlRaaga.blogspot.com
I am quite active on my blogs and often post entries on Microsoft technologies like C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server, Silverlight & Windows Phone 7.
  • Interests: I am always interested in Microsoft Technology specially asp.net & SQL server. Other than this I love Singing ,dancing and playing musical instruments.

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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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