New Pluralsight Course – LFCE: Linux Service Management – Advanced HTTP Services
My new course “LFCE: Linux Service Management – Advanced HTTP Services” in now available on Pluralsight here! If you want to learn about the...
2018-02-17
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Blog Posts
New Pluralsight Course – LFCE: Linux Service Management – Advanced HTTP Services
My new course “LFCE: Linux Service Management – Advanced HTTP Services” in now available on Pluralsight here! If you want to learn about the course, check out the trailer here or if you want...
2018-02-17
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SQL Server Error 3013: Restore Database is Terminating Abnormally
Overview of SQL Server Error 3013
One of the most frustrating situations that a user experiences while working with SQL Server...
2018-02-17
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Black Panther is Going to Change Superhero Movies
Hello Dear Reader! Sorry it has been so long, I've been blogging over on the MSDN site about technology. I'll...
2018-02-16
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Black Panther is Going to Change Superhero Movies
Hello Dear Reader! Sorry it has been so long, I've been blogging over on the MSDN site about technology. I'll have a Twitter Sentiment update for Black Panther later...
2018-02-16
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dbatools and Orphaned Users
I really like the dbatools project. This is a series of PowerShell cmdlets that are built by the community and...
2018-02-16
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Settings Goals Professionally
I was reminded of this topic after yesterday’s #SQLChat. Have you set professional goals for yourself? If so, have you...
2018-02-16 (first published: 2018-02-08)
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tSQLt Course
In the last half of 2017, I decided to run a tSQLt course and went down the route of putting...
2018-02-16 (first published: 2018-02-06)
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"What's New in SQL 2017?" at the Baton Rouge SQL Server UG meeting
We had a great joint meeting tonight of the Baton Rouge SQL and .NET User Groups at the Louisiana Tech...
2018-02-15
542 reads
Azure Data Architecture Guide (ADAG)
The Azure Data Architecture Guide has just been released! Check it out: http://aka.ms/ADAG
Think of it as a menu or syllabus for...
2018-02-15
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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...
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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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