What happens when Windows is the step-child? Adventures in Ruby on Rails.
Like many of you I’ve heard the developer community going on about Rails for quite a while now. It wasn’t...
2010-04-02
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Blog Posts
Winner of the March SQL Aloha Contest
The March SQL Aloha contest had a total of 25 entries, and all of them were great responses to this...
2010-04-02
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A DMV a Day – Day 1
Just as an experiment, I am going to post a different DMV query every day for the next 30 days. ...
2010-04-01
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Announcing Quantum Compare v1.01
I bet most of you use some type of diff/comparison tool at work. Probably one for the file system and...
2010-04-01
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April Fools is Fun
Some good jokes going around, and the few I wrote for SQLServerCentral went over well. There was a good one...
2010-04-01
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April Question: What advice would you offer a novice DBA in order to help them along in their career?
Post your responses to the above SQL Aloha Question of the Month in the comments section below (at www.bradmcgehee.com if...
2010-04-01
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Blog Topics - Where do you draw the Line?
I started blogging a few months ago and since I started writing my own blog, I've been a much bigger...
2010-04-01
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Career Advice - Moving to Oracle
I’ve always said that it didn’t matter what the database was. If it could do the job then it’s worth...
2010-04-01
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Getting Scared
This is not a technical post, it’s personal, but I need to express my fears. It isn’t about our economy,...
2010-04-01
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Goal Review Q1
As we close out the First Quarter of 2010 it is time to review progress made on the Goals I...
2010-04-01
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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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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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