Building a PASS Voting Solution – Part 2
Yesterday I wrote about deciding to build a quick and dirty voting solution. Or to try to at least! Should...
2010-06-18
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Blog Posts
Finding Duplicates
This is just a short post that uses a contrived example to demonstrate how to find duplicate records in a...
2010-06-18
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How Do I ... Get a List of Tables With Data Modifications in a Specific Timeframe?
How Do I ... Get a List of Tables With Data Modifications in a Specific Timeframe?
There was a question on a...
2010-06-18
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June SCSUG Meeting Follow-up
This is a bit later than usual as the meeting was a week ago now, but I wanted to post...
2010-06-18
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Learn SQL Server 2008 R2 with 24-HOP
Last month, the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) held its second 24 Hours of PASS, or 24 HOP for...
2010-06-18
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PASS Update #34 (The “Spring Event”!)
The minutes of the June 2010 Board meeting have been posted and if you haven’t read them yet, you missed...
2010-06-18
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Speaking and Presenting Tips - Handouts
I’ve given quite a few presentations, one keynote with another to come, and attended many more. I’ve read a few...
2010-06-18
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SQL Spatial data for State/County shapes
I saw a Blog post by Grant Fritchey (Blog | Twitter) a couple days ago on using Geospatial data in SSRS...
2010-06-18
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Travel Tips from an Intrepid Traveling DBA
Recently, Buck Woody challenged myself, Paul Randal, and Brent Ozar to write a blog post on “How I Travel”. I...
2010-06-18
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Building a PASS Voting Solution – Part 1
Last year for the annual Board of Directors election we used Zoomerang as our e-voting solution. It’s not the worst...
2010-06-17
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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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