A Day Off
I'm having a day off tomorrow, got some nice things planned including a trip to the beach with the puppies....
2009-12-10
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Blog Posts
Book Review: Eisenhower The President (Vol 2)
I continue to read biographies without a real direction, stumbling across an interesting event in one and following that to...
2009-12-10
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Do You Use Projects/Solutions in SSMS?
When SQL Server 2005 was released Microsoft made a major change to the client tools provided with SQL Server, moving...
2009-12-10
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SSIS Package Credentials - Featured article on SSC.com
Today, on SQLServerCentral.com, SSIS Package Credentials, is the featured article on the site.
I originally drafted this article as a blog post, and...
2009-12-10
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Best of SQLServerCentral.com Volume 7 Available for Download
It’s a compilation of the best articles over the past year or so, all pushed into a nice PDF that...
2009-12-09
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Microsoft Creates Server and Cloud Division
Microsoft announced today that they are reorganizing and combining the existing Windows Server and Solutions Group and the Windows Azure...
2009-12-09
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Old DBA Trick To Confirm SQL Server Connectivity
“What’s wrong with the database?" or “I can’t connect to SQL Server” How many times have you heard phrases like...
2009-12-09
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On Conciseness...
I had the privilege of writing a guest post on Mike Walsh's blog, entitled:
Conciseness
It's simply about being concise in our...
2009-12-09
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OPASS December Meeting Recap
This was the first meeting where I really lead most of the meeting. Andy Warren (@sqlandy) did the networking at...
2009-12-09
363 reads
Updating Software on the Blackberry Bold
Had a message waiting on my phone this morning that there was a system upgrade available. Interesting, think it’s the...
2009-12-09
231 reads
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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