Video articles
While thinking of ways to improve the way I can get SQL Server information across to those who follow my...
2014-11-30
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Blog Posts
Giving away FREE Access to my SQL Server High Availability and Disaster Recovery Deep Dive Course – Round 2
Originally posted on - Microsoft technologies and what I do for fun -:
Last year, as part of launching my very first...
2014-11-29
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A look at the SQL Assessment Intelligence Pack in Operational Insights
Operational Insights is a service that has been added in preview to Azure. It enables you to collect, combine, correlate...
2014-11-28 (first published: 2014-11-24)
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Changing Delay Between Responses for SQL Alerts with Powershell
So you have read that you should have alerts for severity levels 16 to 24 and 823,824 and 825 on...
2014-11-28 (first published: 2014-11-18)
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Friday Followup For November 28, 2014
It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...
2014-11-28
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Reblog: November 21 to November 27
Photo credit – Jenn and Tony Bot
Sometimes old stuff is just as cool as new stuff. Over the past few years,...
2014-11-28
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Setting up WebStorm to debug grunt with TypeScript
It’s possible to use the WebStorm editor to debug grunt tasks if you are using TypeScript and generating .map files. ...
2014-11-28
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Virtualization Virtual Chapter Webinar – Open Q&A
On December 10 at 11am CST I will be presenting the next PASSVirtualization Virtual Chapter monthly webinar, where you can ask...
2014-11-28
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Beware the defaults! (in windowing functions) – The Movie!
I was recently contacted by the fine gents of Webucator, an online training services provider. In order to promote their...
2014-11-27
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In-memory OLTP Part 1: Introduction to In-memory OLTP
SQL Server 2014 introduced probably one of the biggest changes to the SQL Server engine since years, “In-memory OLTP” (or...
2014-11-27 (first published: 2014-11-21)
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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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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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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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