Off to SQLSaturday #14
I leave this afternoon for Pensacola and SQLSaturday #14. My daughter is traveling with me, for a short vacation with...
2009-06-04
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Blog Posts
SQL Saturday 14 Pensacola
I will be speaking this Saturday at the SQL Saturday in Pensacola. The topic will be SSIS Best Practices and Performance Tuning. ...
2009-06-04
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SQLServerCentral.Com to Offer SQL Server Track at SQL Server Connections
I have spoken at many conferences over the years, including the PASS Community Summit and SQL Server Connections, and one...
2009-06-04
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The SQLServerCentral Track at SQL Connections
I'm happy to announce that SQLServerCentral is sponsoring a track at this year's SQL Connections conference in Las Vegas, Nov...
2009-06-04
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Tool Review: Bosch PS-40 10.8 Volt Impact Driver
A little further off topic than usual, but this is one of the few tools that I've purchased that I...
2009-06-04
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I Learned a New Word
Do you know what a Geoid is?
I’ve been working my way through Beginning Spatial with SQL Server 2008, actually “through”...
2009-06-03
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Scripting Our Daily (Professional) Lives
I talk a lot about scripting tasks on our servers to automate our regular processes, but in this case I'm...
2009-06-03
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Seatguru - Getting a Good Seat on the Plane
Ran across this a while back and just getting to it, Seatguru is a site that lets you figure out...
2009-06-03
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Speaking at SQLSaturday #14 in Pensacola on June 6, 2009
I'm driving over tonight to spend a long weekend in Pensacola (6-7 hour drive from Orlando) for their first SQLSaturday,...
2009-06-03
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SQLServerCentral Article on Backup Monitoring and Reporting
The article, Backup Monitoring and Reporting, demonstrates a SQL Server backup reporting solution I use in my production environment. Some highlights of...
2009-06-03
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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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