New Cumulative Updates For SQL Server 2008
Yesterday, Microsoft released SQL Server 2008 SP1 CU4, which is Build 2734, and SQL Server 2008 RTM CU7, which is...
2009-09-22
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Blog Posts
PASS Book List
Since the beginning of the year I’ve been trying to include a SQL related book in the bi-weekly Connector. Basically...
2009-09-22
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PASS Connector Editorial for September 23, 2009
I currently write the editorial for the PASS Connector which is published every two weeks as part of my role...
2009-09-22
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Searching for Data in Images
I tried out Bing’s new visual search after seeing a few people note it on Twitter. I was a little...
2009-09-22
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September OPASS Meeting Recap
OPASS met last Tuesday, September 14th, with a mini (15 minute) presentation by Todd Holmes on Backup Basics and Jorge...
2009-09-22
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Built In Alerts
The more I think about this, the more I think it should be built into SQL Server as a default....
2009-09-21
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Free eBook: “Protecting SQL Server Data”
SQL Server security expert, John Magnabosco, has just authored the new book, Protecting SQL Server Data, the first book of...
2009-09-21
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Identifying Frequently Running Queries
It’s not enough to look at the longest running query. What if you have two queries, one runs for 5...
2009-09-21
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More Free Training Resources
A recent blog by Jack Corbett (No Training Budget Still No Excuse, followed up by SSC’s Steve Jones here) hit...
2009-09-21
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My next republished article is now available
Okay, my second article which was originally published on sswug.org, is now available on SQLServerCentral.com. This article compares two methods...
2009-09-21
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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...
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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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