Re-awarded MVP status for 2013
I received notification that I have received the Microsoft MVP award for 2013, my fourth consecutive year to receive this...
2013-01-01
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Blog Posts
VCAP5-DCA study guide is now available
Paul Grevink has released a great study guide for the VMware VCAP5-DCA exam. It’s available here! I’ll be using it...
2013-01-01
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2012 Blog Statistics in Review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
About 55,000 tourists visit Liechtenstein every...
2012-12-31
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2012 in review !
Year 2012 was super special for me in many ways. Made lot of new friends, Attended SQLPASS Summit 2012 and had...
2012-12-31
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Building a Full Text Index
I hadn’t used full-text indexing in production throughout my career. We hadn’t had the need in the applications I worked...
2012-12-31 (first published: 2012-12-19)
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December Top 4 Popular Posts
It is Monday today but its no ordinary Monday. Today is New Years Eve, its the end of December and...
2012-12-31
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Fragmentation in SQL Server
Fragmentation:- Fragmentation can be defined as condition where data is stored in a non continuous manner. In can be defined into...
2012-12-31
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Happy New Year
I’m not working too hard today, so this is just a short post to wish all my readers a very...
2012-12-31
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2012-12-31
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Happy New Year 2013 !
New Year begins,
Let us pray that it will be a year with new peace, new happiness and abundance of new...
2012-12-31
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Blogs
2025 Wrapped for Steve
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
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...
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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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