Untrusted Foreign Keys
What is a Foreign Key?
Do you trust your foreign keys?
A foreign key is a link between 2 tables that is...
2014-10-23 (first published: 2014-10-17)
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Blog Posts
Database Ghosts
Recently you may have seen my first article on this topic over at SQL Solutions Group. If not, here is the link so you can read that article first...
2014-10-22
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Networking at the PASS Summit
The 2014 PASS Summit is coming up in a few weeks and thousands of SQL Server professionals will be coming...
2014-10-22 (first published: 2014-10-15)
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Off to London
Today I’m off across the Atlantic again. SQL in the City 2014 kicks off in London and I have 3...
2014-10-22
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What collation variables take on in T-SQL
I was asked an interesting question about collations in sql server recently about where variables in a script got their...
2014-10-22
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What collation variables take on in T-SQL
I was asked an interesting question about collations in sql server recently about where variables in a script got their...
2014-10-22
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What collation variables take on in T-SQL
I was asked an interesting question about collations in sql server recently about where variables in a script got their collation's from. I really wasn't too sure of the...
2014-10-22
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Wishing You a Very Happy Diwali
Wishing You a Very Happy Diwali…………….
KAHI TIMTIMAHAT HAIN DIYO KI, KAHI SHOR HAAN ATHISBAZI KA
CHAMAK HAAN DIL MAIN, UMEEDO KI...
2014-10-22
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Consolidating Email Accounts
I am consolidating my professional email accounts into one place. If you’ve previously contacted me using my linchpinpeople.com or either...
2014-10-21
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DBAs - Step away from production
I have worked as a DBA and also as a Sql Server developer and in many roles had full access...
2014-10-21
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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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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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