2010 Goals – First Quarter Review
Overall, not too bad for the first quarter, but definitely some areas I need to pick up the slack on.
Community...
2010-04-07
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Blog Posts
A DMV a Day – Day 7
I have three different DMVs for Day 7. The first one is sys.dm_db_missing_index_group_stats, which is described by BOL as:
Returns summary...
2010-04-07
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How Do I Identify Invalid or Unneeded Logins?
Introduction
I was looking at one of my servers and was caught off-guard by how many individual users had been granted...
2010-04-07
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How Silly
Have you ever done anything that made you feel like a dunderhead? Maybe a little bone-headed, thick, numb-skullish?
Here is my...
2010-04-07
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New MSSQLTips Article: Nesting Database Roles in SQL Server
I'm still way behind on my writing for the year, thanks to fighting off stronger than usual migraines and now...
2010-04-07
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SQLSaturday Orlando 2010 - The Planning Begins
Believe it or not, it's already time to start planning for Orlando's next SQLSaturday. Andy Warren and I had our...
2010-04-07
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Test Driving a LinkedIn Poll
Had this on my list for a while, thinking maybe it’s a way to leverage the investment in my (your)...
2010-04-07
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Use a Clustered Index
I stumbled across this clustered index test from Hugo Kornelis recently from a post in the forums. I think I’d...
2010-04-07
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24 Hours of PASS Registration Now Open
Registration for the 24 Hours of PASS is now open. This free, online training event will be held starting 12:00...
2010-04-06
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24 Hours of PASS v2.0
The kids over at the Professional Association of SQL Server Users have done it again. They’re hosting 24 Hours of...
2010-04-06
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Blogs
2025 Wrapped for Steve
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
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...
Forums
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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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