PASSMN Presentation Materials
Last week, I presented on extended events at the Minnesota SQL Server user group (PASSMN). The turnout was quite excellent...
2012-12-28
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Blog Posts
Reblog: December 21 to December 27
Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer...
2012-12-28
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SQL Server – Skipping Function Execution when parameters are NULL
You can avoid executing a function when NULL values are passed as parameters. To achieve this you need to create...
2012-12-28 (first published: 2012-12-19)
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SQL Server 2012 Diagnostic Information Queries (Dec 2012)
Here is the December 2012 version of my SQL Server 2012 Diagnostic Information Queries, with some minor tweaks and improvements...
2012-12-28
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SQL Server Cumulative Update
Microsoft today announced the latest round of SQL Server Cumulative Updates
SQL Server 2012 CU 5 – You can get more information...
2012-12-28
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Big Data: An Introduction with Hive
Hive is a data warehouse system for Hadoop that facilitates easy data summarization, ad-hoc queries, and the analysis of large datasets stored in Hadoop compatible file systems. Hive provides...
2012-12-27
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I Pulled a Forest Gump
Last Friday I went for a quick run before we packed up and headed to Steamboat Springs for a week’s...
2012-12-27
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It’s Another 24 Hours of PASS
With the upcoming PASS Business Analytics Conference, it only makes sense for there to be a 24 Hours of PASS...
2012-12-27
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PASS Summit 2012 session videos online
If you are interested in viewing the recorded sessions for the PASS Summit 2012, you can order them on a USB flash...
2012-12-27
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Predictions for 2013
I’m on holiday, but I have a set of predictions for 2013 coming on Jan 1. This is a little...
2012-12-27
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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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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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