SSC Editorial – Limited Features or Limited Time
This editorial for the SSC newsletter ran last week and talks about the conundrum for software vendors – how do you...
2010-06-10
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Blog Posts
TechEd 2010 – Wednesday
My final day at TechEd. Packed up and checked my bag at the hotel, off to the bus. Noticed that...
2010-06-10
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TechEd Impressions: Day Three
Today I attended four regular sessions, plus a special lunch session for Microsoft MVPs. The sessions I attended varied a...
2010-06-10
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Upcoming SQL Lunch Events
We are scheduling more and more events daily on the SQL Lunch. Just as a reminder here are a few...
2010-06-10
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What a coincidence ....
Two of the biggest events in the Technology World will be held at the same date!
PASS SUMMIT 2010 (8-11, November...
2010-06-10
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Daily SQL Server 2008 New Feature – Day 19
Every day for the next couple of weeks, I aim to highlight one of SQL Server 2008’s new features, simply...
2010-06-09
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Filter Jobs using SQL Server Job Activity Monitor
Using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), we have the capability of quickly looking at job related information to verify things...
2010-06-09
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How To Eliminate Key Lookups in SQL Server 2008
The Key Lookup operator is a bookmark lookup on a table with a clustered index. Key Lookups can be quite...
2010-06-09
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MS TechUpdate Prishtina in Kosova (June 9, 2010)
On June 9, 2010 is held the annual event that in Prishtina is recognized as Microsoft TechUpdate. Presenters in this...
2010-06-09
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Option missing in NTILE function?
Just saw something interesting....we have a requirement to divide a result set into a certain number of groups that have...
2010-06-09
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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
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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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