PASS 2010 Submissions
Since all the cool kids seem to be posting the sessions that they submitted to the PASS Summit, nerd that...
2010-06-09
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Blog Posts
SQL Saturday #22 - Pensacola
This was my second year going to SQL Saturday in Pensacola and once again I enjoyed it. I stayed again...
2010-06-09
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SSMS 2008 and changing a SQL 2005 SA password.
You can probably tell from some of my more recent posts that I have been doing some work lately on...
2010-06-09
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TechEd 2010 - A Half a Conference Recap
I left TechEd this morning, actually too early, catching a 7:12am flight from New Orleans to Denver. Which meant a...
2010-06-09
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TechEd 2010 – Afternoon
Noticed that they have ‘overflow’ rooms where they are broadcasting sessions that max out attendance, very nice. Wonder how much...
2010-06-09
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TechEd Impressions: Day Two
It’s only day two of the four day conference, and I am already exhausted from attending sessions from 8:00 AM...
2010-06-09
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A Guitar is Just a Piece of Wood
In my real-life I play guitar. Being an analytical sort-of-fella I found myself inhaling all the books, videos, advice, etc....
2010-06-08
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BI at the Royal Canadian Mint - TechEd
The Royal Canadian Mint, in Ottawa, is located at a large castle. How cool is that? Would you want to...
2010-06-08
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Building an Energy Efficient Workstation
Over this past weekend, I decided to build a new general purpose workstation from parts, with a goal of getting...
2010-06-08
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Daily SQL Server 2008 New Feature – Day 18
Every day for the next couple of weeks, I aim to highlight one of SQL Server 2008’s new features, simply...
2010-06-08
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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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Question of the Day
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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