2014-10-20
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Blog Posts
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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My Best LinkedIn Articles
Below is the list of linkedin articles which I liked most. These articles gives you lot of motivation.
7 Bad Management...
2014-10-19
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Configure SQL Server Database Mirroring
1) Take Full backup of database at Principle Server
BACKUP DATABASE USERDB1 TO DISK = ‘H:USERDB1.BAK’
2) Take Log Backup at Principle Server
BACKUP...
2014-10-17 (first published: 2014-10-13)
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Friday Followup For October 17, 2014
It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...
2014-10-17
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Navel Gazing
I love negative feedback. Well, not really. I love constructive feedback. I love the feedback that gives me things to...
2014-10-17 (first published: 2014-10-12)
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Reblog: October 10 to October 16
Photo credit – JStove
Old posts are like unicorns. You might see them just once, but it’d sure be nice to have...
2014-10-17
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Untrusted Foreign Keys
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What is a Foreign Key?
Do you trust your foreign keys?
A foreign key is a link between...
2014-10-17
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Why Haven’t You Changed Everything?
The first in what I hope will be many regular reports on what I’m doing on the PASS board.
To answer...
2014-10-17
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Analytics Platform System (APS) AU2 released
The Analytics Platform System (APS), which is a renaming of the Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW), has recently released an appliance update (AU2),...
2014-10-16
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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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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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