On the Advantages of DateTime2(n) over DateTime
Starting with SQL 2008, we database developers started becoming more familiar with datetime2. Sometimes folks need convincing though, so here...
2012-12-04
12,263 reads
Will Assaf
PowerPivot for Excel "Not loaded. The Managed Add-in Loader failed to initialize."
Error when trying to enable the PowerPivot for Excel add-in for Office 2010 reads:
"Not loaded. The Managed Add-in Loader failed...
2012-11-30
6,430 reads
Database Design Contest at the 2012 AITP Region 3 Student Conference
Had a great Friday in Lafayette, LA on the campus of the University of Louisiana-Lafayette. 31 different teams submitted database...
2012-10-14
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Performance Tuning Presentation from October 2012 BRSSUG Meeting
Thanks to the 15+ folks who attended the Baton Rouge SQL Server User Group meeting last night! I hope everyone...
2012-10-11
755 reads
How BETWEEN is inclusive
This is a old and simple one, but an important subtlety that TSQL developers must be aware of.
Using the BETWEEN...
2012-09-26
2,752 reads
SQL Server Best Practices for DMV's - Houston Tech Fest 2012
It is a pleasure meeting everyone today at Houston Tech Fest! The new facility is miles away - literally and figuratively...
2012-09-08
942 reads
SQL Agent Alerts - Severity Condition is NOT "greater than or equal to"
I ran into some bad training that had convinced a client sys admin that the SQL Agent Alerts had the...
2012-08-20
2,265 reads
Actual Emails: The Customer Doesn't Want Full Recovery Mode
Got this question in an email. I'll paraphrase.
William Hoping you can advise me on best way to handle this. My client doesn’t...
2012-08-16
685 reads
SQL Saturday #150 Baton Rouge 2012
Baton Rouge SQL Saturday is Saturday, August 4!
We expect ~400 attendees at the brand new LSU Business Education Centre of...
2012-07-27
773 reads
SQL Server DBA Tool Kit
Right next to my batarang and bat-zip-line-hook-shooter-gun on my utility belt is my SQL Server DBA Tool Kit, full of...
2012-07-12
1,068 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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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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