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On the Twelfth Day…

Bacon wrapped frog legs (twelve of them) for Christmas.  No more drumming for these guys!! What could be better than bacon wrapped frog legs?  Oh yeah, more Virtual lab...

2012-12-25

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Big Data And Hadoop Part 2

In my previous blog I have given more insight on Big Data and now we will take a closer look at Hadoop.

Hadoop

Hadoop is a software framework that supports data-intensive...

2012-12-24

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On the Eleventh Day…

Yesterday we had an introduction into setting up a virtual lab to help the DBA learn and test new technologies while improving his/her own skill set. Today we will...

2012-12-24

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On the Sixth Day…

What better way to kick off the sixth day of pre-Christmas than with six slices of foie-gras?  No animals have...

2012-12-24 (first published: )

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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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