The SQLServerCentral Outage
A lot of people have asked what happened over the Memorial Day weekend as SQLServerCentral was down. All I can...
2009-05-26
1,584 reads
Blog Posts
Tracking Deprecated Features
This week I'm in Brno, Czech Republic leading an App Compat seminar for Microsoft clients here, and one of the...
2009-05-26
479 reads
Featured Blogger: Wes Dumey
Wes is a friend acquiring via networking and community involvement - another success story! He's based in Tampa and has been...
2009-05-25
560 reads
Looking for the Next RSS Reader
I've been using Snarfer for a while now, preferring an offline reader so that I use a few spare moments...
2009-05-25
738 reads
Speaking Engagements for The Modern Resume
I’m giving my talk on The Modern Resume – Building Your Brand a few more times this year and I’ve got...
2009-05-25
992 reads
SQL Server Encryption - Protecting Files at Rest
You have a few options for protecting your SQL Server data at rest. So far I haven't seen anything thing...
2009-05-25
3,511 reads
Memorial Day
Today in the United States we celebrate Memorial Day, the day we remember American casualties of any military action. Though...
2009-05-24
558 reads
A Flood of Books
I'm on a few publishers' lists as someone that reviews books, works with SQL Server, and in general might help...
2009-05-22
758 reads
Hyper-V – A New Machine
I installed Hyper-V onto a new machine as a role for the base Windows 2008 server role. It required a...
2009-05-22
1,029 reads
Book Review: The Making of the Atomic Bomb
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes ($14 at Amazon) was a book I picked up for travel,...
2009-05-21
671 reads
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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