I’m givin’ ‘er all she’s got!
Or am I?
As I proceed down the path on a consolidation project, I have taken time to pause and ponder...
2010-02-21
663 reads
Jason Brimhall
May I help you?
With the Vancouver games underway, I have been reflecting on the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. Those were the greatest winter...
2010-02-18
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DBA.Sleep(8hrs)
I have been pondering recently what helps me to sleep at night. Or, conversely, what prevents me from sleeping at...
2010-02-18
1,609 reads
DBA.Sleep(8hrs)
I have been pondering recently what helps me to sleep at night. Or, conversely, what prevents me from sleeping at...
2010-02-17
1,319 reads
In Vs. Inner Join
This is tightly related to another of my forays into tuning some slowly/poorly performing processes. This process came across my...
2010-02-16
871 reads
PayPeriod II
I recently blogged about a solution I had decided to use in order to solve a problem related to PayPeriod...
2010-02-14
794 reads
Key Discovery III
In Part I and Part II of the series, I discussed documenting and discovering Primary Keys and Clustered Indexes. In...
2010-02-11
974 reads
Relationships
This month Rob Farley is hosting TSQL-Tuesday #3. The topic is Relationships and he has left it wide open for...
2010-02-09
879 reads
Log is Filling Up
Today I ran across Paul Randal’s latest post showing how to find open transactions and such. This is a nice...
2010-02-05
526 reads
Key Discovery III
In Part I and Part II of the series, I discussed documenting and discovering Primary Keys and Clustered Indexes. In...
2010-02-02
1,700 reads
Blogs
The Book of Redgate: Spread across the world
By Steve Jones
This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...
Merry Christmas
By John
Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...
Self-Hosting a Photo Server the Whole Family Can Use
By Bert Wagner
Until recently, my family's 90,000+ photos have been hidden away in the depths of...
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Question of the Day
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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