Stepping Stone Cert
A few of us have been deliberating and discussing the need for a bridge certification between the MCITP and MCM...
2010-03-30
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Blog Posts
Indexes - where you cannot create them!
Indexes are the objects that DBA uses them everyday and maintaining them very often, during the maintenance routines. The main...
2010-03-29
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Notes from the Orlando Code Camp March 2010
I arrived about 7:15 and already quite a few people on hand. Registration was moved to inside this time, just...
2010-03-29
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Scheduling backups in SQL Server Express
I have seen many forum posts asking how do you schedule backups for SQL Express databases and the answers always...
2010-03-29
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Slipstream - Makes installs simple
I was recently working on building a test environment for myself while I was studying for the MCITP-Database Administration exams. ...
2010-03-29
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To Get Certified or Not Get Certified
I have noticed quite a bit of discussion recently about the merits of Microsoft certification. Some people (like me) think...
2010-03-29
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Using Custom Connection Colors in SSMS
One of the new features that was added to SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) in SQL Server 2008, which was...
2010-03-29
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DBCC INPUTBUFFER vs fn_get_sql
Someone asked a question in the forums the other day and I realized it would make a pretty decent blog...
2010-03-28
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TempDB – Relocate the TempDB Database Files
I took control of a new server recently and noticed that Tempdb was not configured to best practice. It was...
2010-03-28
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Making Sense of Replication Errors in Replication Monitor
Making Sense of Replication Errors in Replication Monitor If you've ever had to deal with errors in Replication Monitor, your first...
2010-03-27
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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...
Forums
Database backup job steps
I have a SQL Agent job for backing up a set of Analysis Services...
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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