I’d buy an iPhone4, but ….
I don’t trust ATT.
That’s saying something. AT&T, the company that built US telco, that gave us innovations from Bell Labs,...
2010-06-16
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Blog Posts
Leaders in Meetings
As the owner of a meeting/discussion you have two options on how to drive the conversation, and which you use...
2010-06-16
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My PASS Session Abstracts
The 1992 Dream Team
When you hear the phrase “All-Star Lineup”, what comes to mind? The New York Yankees? The 1970's...
2010-06-16
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So I Won't Be Going to the Summit This Year
As the deadline for abstracts to be submitted to the PASS Summit came due, I made the hard decision not...
2010-06-16
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Building A Remote Desktop Manager Connection List
Remote Desktop Connection Manager or RDCMan is a free download from Microsoft for managing multiple remote desktop connections. The functionality...
2010-06-15
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Building HTML Emails With SQL Server and XML
Building HTML Emails With SQL Server and XML
I’ve written a lot of custom reports in my days that output data...
2010-06-15
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Daily SQL Server 2008 New Features – Day 23
Every day for the next couple of weeks, I aim to highlight one of SQL Server 2008’s new features, simply...
2010-06-15
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DBA Hell
On the first day of DBA hell, the server gave to me
A database with damaged system tables and no good...
2010-06-15
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Hawaii is Not Prometric Microsoft Certification Test Friendly
While I was at TechEd last week, I got a 50% off Microsoft Certification test voucher that expires on June...
2010-06-15
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Insert Unknown Row to Dimension Table
When building a warehouse there is a common practice of adding an Unknown row to the Dimension tables. For me,...
2010-06-15
1,418 reads
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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