Power BI Monthly Digest – May 2018
This month I continued a new series with Manuel Quintana [Blog | Twitter] to help you stay on top of the...
2018-05-15 (first published: 2018-05-08)
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Blog Posts
Speaking at SQLSaturday Atlanta – 733
Speaking at SQLSaturday Atlanta!
I’m proud to announce that I will be speaking at SQL Saturday Atlanta on May 17th 2018! This one...
2018-05-15
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Speaking at SQLSaturday Atlanta – 733
Speaking at SQLSaturday Atlanta!
I’m proud to announce that I will be speaking at SQL Saturday Atlanta on May 17th 2018! This one won’t let you down! Check out the amazing schedule!...
2018-05-15
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SQL Server Save Time Managing Multiple Servers With Central Management Servers
Central Management Servers give us a way to manage a collection of SQL Servers as one, a query executed against...
2018-05-15
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Why Is My VARCHAR(MAX) Variable Getting Truncated?
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Sometimes SQL Server doesn't do what you tell it to do.
Normally that's ok - SQL is a declarative language...
2018-05-15
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Why Is My VARCHAR(MAX) Variable Getting Truncated?
Watch this week’s episode on YouTube.
Sometimes SQL Server doesn’t do what you tell it to do.
Normally that’s ok – SQL is...
2018-05-15
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Why Is My VARCHAR(MAX) Variable Getting Truncated?
Watch this week's video on YouTube
Watch this week's episode on YouTube.
Sometimes SQL Server doesn't do what you tell it to do.
Normally that's ok - SQL is a declarative language...
2018-05-15
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A View Will Not Make Your Query Faster
Twice recently, one on a blog post, and one in a forum post, I’ve seen people state, unequivocally, without reservation...
2018-05-14
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Blogging and when to keep your big mouth shut
I’ve been blogging for a while now. I’ve thought about blogging quite a bit. I’ve even done quite a few...
2018-05-14
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Day 14 MySQL sys Schema
MySQL 5.7.7 and higher includes the sys schema, This has View, Stored Procedures and Functions to gather the performance related information, as...
2018-05-14
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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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