SQL Server High Availabilty Webinar
Always On: SQL Server High Availabilty
Just wanted to tell you all about a fantastic Webinar on SQL Server High Availability,...
2009-09-18
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Blog Posts
Upcoming Speaking Engagements for Q4
In the next few months, I’ll be giving a couple of talks on SQL Server business intelligence. For October, I...
2009-09-18
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Building a Chair – Part 2
Last week I posted Part 1 and Steve Jones gave some grief about not posting some pictures (rightfully so) of...
2009-09-17
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Cleaning the Keyboard
I noticed that the keys on my laptop were pretty dirty the other day. The heavily used ones have a...
2009-09-17
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Fundamentals of Storage Systems - The Basics of Spinning Disks
Your servers are only as fast as the slowest part, hard drives.To feed other parts of the system we have...
2009-09-17
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Interacticely sorting columns in SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services
Business Intelligence Developers Studio (aka BIDS) for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services makes creating engaging and dynamic reports nearly...
2009-09-17
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SQL Server Job Trends on Graphs
A colleague pointed out a site that collects a lot of job posting data and exposes graphs - so I've taken...
2009-09-17
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SSMS "Connect to Database Engine" Prompt Behavior When Dragging And Dropping Files
A minor annoyance of mine for a long time has been how SSMS will sometimes prompt you to connect to...
2009-09-17
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The Boss Is Always Right
Bet you’re ready to disagree, right? I’ve had this on my list to write about for a while. One trend...
2009-09-17
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Article of the Week – Kevin Kline “Social Media Scene”
This weeks article is written by Kevin Kline, which is titled “Getting Up-to-Speed on the SQL Server Social Medial Scene”. ...
2009-09-16
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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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