Tactics to Find Outdated Statistics in SQL Server
Statistics in SQL Server are used to identify the type of plan that needs to be executed for a query....
2018-05-21
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Blog Posts
What are the system databases?
I get to help with technical interviews every now and again, and one of the questions we always ask is...
2018-05-21
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Why PASS?
In case this is your first time hearing of it, PASS is the single largest community of Microsoft Data Platform...
2018-05-21
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C# – Read emails from exchange online mailbox (Office 365) into SQL Server
You have an Office 365 mailbox. You want to use C# to read those mails and save them to SQLServer.
The...
2018-05-20
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SQL Server Error Handling In Depth
TRY/CATCH RAISERROR Pre SQL Server 2012 Since SQL Server 2005 we’ve had TRY CATCH syntax in SQL Server handle errors....
2018-05-20
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SQL Server Error Handling In Depth
TRY/CATCH RAISERROR Pre SQL Server 2012
Since SQL Server 2005 we’ve had TRY CATCH syntax in SQL Server handle errors. If...
2018-05-20
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Thanks for joining us at SQLSat Dallas!
Engaged crowds and great questions at both my morning sessions on Saturday morning at SQLSat Dallas, an event put together by a team of expert SQLSat organizers, including SQL...
2018-05-20
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Day 19 MyIASM Storage engine
MyIASM storage engine is available from the early stage of MySQL this engine is developed from IASM language and it...
2018-05-19
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Helper function to convert binary to decimal and back
In this post you will find two small functions that convert binary value to a decimal one and vice versa.
2018-05-19
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How to Extract last name or first name(s) from a combined field
Extracting pieces of information from a string can be a daunting task. This is an example of a REVERSE technique.
The...
2018-05-19
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Blogs
2025 Wrapped for Steve
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
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...
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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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