My Application to the PASS Board
The application form mentions that the quite a bit of what you include will be made public. While I won’t...
2010-07-20
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Blog Posts
PASSMN July Meeting Today
Don’t forget the July PASSMN meeting is today. We have Itzik Ben-Gan (blog) coming in to talk about some query...
2010-07-20
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Raining Tuesday – Cricket Cancelled – Replication Stinks - SQL BITS VOTE NOW!
Well this was going to be replication post, but I have read it, re-written it, read it, re-written and it...
2010-07-20
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SQLBits 7
For those that may of missed it, voting for SQLBits sessions is now open. Make your voice heard and get...
2010-07-20
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SSIS - Event Handler Performance
Event handlers are a great tool for managing errors and other events that occur during the execution of a package...
2010-07-20
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Creating UDL Files On The Fly
Many years ago, in the dark ages of DTS I created a little app that would take two parameters and...
2010-07-19
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Finding Your Next Job
We’ve had a few people in the SQL community find jobs lately and many of them attributable to their network....
2010-07-19
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How to Deal with Quebec’s Extremists: Expose Their Malfeasance Publicly?
NB - to my regular blog readers, excuse the tangent here, but the local provincial extremists attempted something in my 'hood...
2010-07-19
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I Did It - PASS Nomination Application
I send my board of directors nomination application to PASS and asked for a confirmation. I always worry that something...
2010-07-19
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I’m All In – Running for the PASS Board
Yes, I’m going to run for the PASS Board of Directors. I have my application and will be sending it out...
2010-07-19
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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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