I deem September 2011 – SQL Server Month
If you haven’t visited the SQL Saturday website you should take a look. There are SEVEN events planned during September around...
2011-08-02
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Tim Radney
Spoke at #sqlsat81
I presented two sessions this weekend in Birmingham AL at SQL Saturday 81. I was in the first slot of...
2011-07-31
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Build a schedule for SQL Saturday
A new feature has been added to SQL Saturday. Now when you register for an event you can build your...
2011-07-29
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Thank you PASS Community
This has been a great week for me. I had a lot of new faces come out for the Columbus...
2011-07-29
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Preparing for #sqlsat81
SQL Saturday 81 is coming up this weekend in Birmingham AL. This will be my 5th SQL Saturday to speak...
2011-07-27
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What is the hardest part of planning a SQL Saturday?
For me so far it has been the speaker selection. Getting sponsors didn’t prove to be difficult, we have a...
2011-07-27
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Get count of folders using Power Shell
More on my recent PowerShell project. I recon I have taken on the challenge to handle this entire request using...
2011-07-25
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Starting and Stopping a Remote Service with PowerShell
A recent project I was working on required me to move folders from a staging location to a processing location....
2011-07-18
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My first PowerShell Script to Move Folders
I just had my first encounter with having to write a PowerShell script. The request seemed pretty harmless when I...
2011-07-15
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SQL Saturday 89 Pre-Con
Why am I attending Kevin Kline’s pre-con on “Troubleshooting & Performance Tuning Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2” at SQL Saturday #89...
2011-07-14
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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...
Forums
Database backup job steps
I have a SQL Agent job for backing up a set of Analysis Services...
SQL Server 2025 Backup Compression Algorithm
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The Large Encoded Value
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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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