SQL Azure Database Service Update 1 Released on February 17
Microsoft’s David Robinson has announced on the SQL Azure Team Blog that they have released Service Update 1 for SQL...
2010-02-19
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Blog Posts
SQL Server 2005/2008, Service Packs - announcement
This is a good news from the Microsoft about SQL Server Release Services for both versions SQL Server 2008 & 2005.
SQL...
2010-02-19
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Testing New Features in SQL Azure Service Update 1
It seems to be SQL Azure night for me tonight… I thought I would try out some of the new...
2010-02-19
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BugMeNot
Warning: Rant coming
Every once in awhile I get a note from someone, usually a somewhat nasty one, that complaints about...
2010-02-18
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Chicago Next Week
I’m in Chicago for a couple days next week, flying in on Sunday. Anyone in the area available for dinner...
2010-02-18
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Cumulative Update Package 8 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3
Microsoft has released CU8 for SQL Server 2005 SP3, which you can get here. This is Build 4285. This CU...
2010-02-18
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Free MSDN Azure Event in Orlando
Joe Healy is doing a four hour Azure training event on March 6, 2010 in Orlando, details and free registration...
2010-02-18
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Getting over to ASK
I haven’t been great about spending time at ask.sqlservercentral.com. It wasn’t my idea to set it up, and while I...
2010-02-18
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Interactive Sorting Using a Tablix in Reporting Services
Many organizations collect data, lots and lots of data. We have the opportunity and ability today to collect more data...
2010-02-18
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May I help you?
With the Vancouver games underway, I have been reflecting on the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. Those were the greatest winter...
2010-02-18
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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...
Forums
SQL Server 2019 - Agent job PowerShell step issue
I have a couple of SQL Agent job steps which run PowerShell commands of...
Database security permissions save script
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Database security permissions save script
Database backup job steps
I have a SQL Agent job for backing up a set of Analysis Services...
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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