Intel Xeon 7500 Series aka Nehalem-EX
Intel has finally released the long awaited (at least by me) 45nm Xeon 7500 series processor. This beast has eight...
2010-03-31
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Blog Posts
The Vacation Crash
The family returned back from the UK last night, after traveling for something like 14 hours, plus an early morning...
2010-03-31
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Auditing Report Executions with Free Source Code
Have you been looking for a way to measure report performance? Want to know who accesses your reports most frequently? ...
2010-03-30
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Building a Wiki
I’ve long admired the value that I get from Wikipedia and like the concept of crowd sourcing knowledge, just never...
2010-03-30
1,636 reads
Didn't I Just Post about Slipstream making Installs Easier?
So the other day I posted, Slipstream - Makes installs simple, and this afternoon I needed to do a SQL Server...
2010-03-30
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FizzBuzz Revisited
I had bigger plans for this series than what has transpired. I think that is a testament as to how...
2010-03-30
1,943 reads
2010-03-30
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Instructables Contest: Paracord
Instructables has a Paracord contest going that requires some portion of a project include paracord (often referred to as 550...
2010-03-30
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SP_change_users_login and SQL Server 2008 onwards
Today I discovered, from a post on the forums and a follow up dig into BOL that sp_change_users_login is to...
2010-03-30
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SQL Server 2008 Database Mirroring: It takes a licking but it keeps on ticking!
With apologies to Timex, I just wanted to relate a minor incident that happened with one of my mirrored databases...
2010-03-30
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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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SQL Server 2025 Backup Compression Algorithm
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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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