Microsoft Drops Support For Itanium after SQL Server 2008 R2
Microsoft’s Dan Reger has announced that Microsoft will not be supporting the Itanium architecture after Windows Server 2008 R2, SQL...
2010-04-05
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Blog Posts
Nested views causing query performance woes....
Just ran into an interesting issue AGAIN. It seems that when you nest views in a query you are opening...
2010-04-05
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nHibernate, First Look at TSQL
I’ve blogged in the past about the nHibernate project that has been going on at my company for the last...
2010-04-05
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Product Review: Fences
Fences is a free utility for the Windows desktop that lets you drag shortcuts into boxes you define (fences) and...
2010-04-05
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A DMV a Day – Day 4
The DMV for Day 4 is sys.dm_os_sys_memory, which is described by BOL as:
Returns memory information from the operating system. SQL...
2010-04-04
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Differential Backups
My last few posts have been backup orientated, I have a post on Full Backup, a post on Transaction Log...
2010-04-04
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Parsing SQL for Table Names
Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition (VSDB) ships with a .NET class for parsing T-SQL. I’ve previously blogged about...
2010-04-04
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SQL Server 2008 MCM Results
SQL Server 2008 MCM Results
3 weeks of intense training, intense studying, 3 written tests, and one 6 hour lab exam....
2010-04-04
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SQL Server 2008 R2 Update for Developers Training Kit (March 2010 Update 2)
SQL Server 2008 R2 Update for Developers Training Kit (March 2010 Update 2)
15 Presentation 24 Demo13 Hands-on Labs35 Videos
The training kit...
2010-04-04
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A DMV a Day – Day 3
The DMV for Day 3 is sys.dm_os_sys_info, which is described by BOL as:
Returns a miscellaneous set of useful information about...
2010-04-03
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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...
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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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