Don't Throw Something New In At Production Deployment
This post comes from a conversation I had with a developer last week as well as my experiences over the...
2010-03-22
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Blog Posts
Free Events – It’s All About Expectations
Isn’t free enough? If you go to a free event do you have a right to complain? Or, if you...
2010-03-22
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More Thoughts on Certification
After a great response to my last post on Certification, I need to post my thoughts on 70-450 PRO: Designing,...
2010-03-22
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PASS BI Virtual Chapter
Did you know that PASS has virtual chapters, allowing members to participate in virtual meetings that are geographically agnostic? One...
2010-03-22
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SP_SPACEUSED & SP_MSTABLESPACE
Take a look two SP inside the sys Procedure in SQL Server 2008 (included also in the SQL Server 2005),...
2010-03-22
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SSWUG Ultimate vConference Discount Code
The SSWUG Ultimate Virtual Conference is coming up on April 7, 8, and 9th. This is three days of very...
2010-03-22
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Why UniqueIdentifier is a Bad Choice for a Clustered Index in SQL Server
I had a question today about why it was “bad” to use a UniqueIdentifier as the data type for a...
2010-03-22
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I’ve Moved and So Should You
After blogging on Live Spaces for a couple of years, I’ve made the difficult decision to move to my own...
2010-03-21
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Improve Performance and Take a peak, at SafePeak for SQL Server
There's an exciting new product on the market, and Pearl Knows is in on the ground floor, and wanted to share.
If...
2010-03-21
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Info about Maximum specifications for SQL Server 2008/2005
A quick info where you can find the Maximum specification for SQL Server 2008/2005 (32 bit & 64 bit).
SQL Server 2008...
2010-03-21
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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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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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