Database Maintenance Plans: A Primer
Databases and newborns have a lot in common. They both require constant care. They both require constant monitoring. They also...
2014-10-20 (first published: 2014-10-14)
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Blog Posts
DevDev
There has been a gigantic shift in attitudes between development and operations, the devops movement, to create a streamlined, automated...
2014-10-20
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DevDev
There has been a gigantic shift in attitudes between development and operations, the devops movement, to create a streamlined, automated...
2014-10-20
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DevDev
There has been a gigantic shift in attitudes between development and operations, the devops movement, to create a streamlined, automated and high performing team of developers and infrastructure techs...
2014-10-20
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Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #105
It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up. If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow...
2014-10-20
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Minion Reindex arrives this Friday!
Edit: Minion Reindex has arrived, and it’s getting fantastic notes! The MidnightDBA team is announcing the release of a new,...
2014-10-20
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SQL Server Security Benchmarks
If you’re not familiar with the Center for Internet Security, here’s the organization’s mission statement:
The Mission of the Center for...
2014-10-20
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Webinar: Presenting to the PASS Database Administration Virtual Chapter
In this Webinar, Prakash will walk you through design considerations, accompanied with a script demo using PowerShell to generate a...
2014-10-20
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2014-10-20
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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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