Windows Server 2008 R2 Core supports SQL Server
First saw this because Jason Massietwittered about it. But apparently there are enough bits of the .NET Framework in R2...
2009-01-09
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Blog Posts
AlphaSmart Neo
I ran across the AlphaSmart Neo in The Writer magazine. It's a $219 "laptop" that is for writing only, basically...
2009-01-08
667 reads
Batting 1000
Nobody bats 1.000, or one thousand. Not in baseball and not in any aspect of life. You might be able...
2009-01-08
625 reads
CS Techcast 57/Phone Interviews Are Hard
I've been meaning to do this for a year, finally caught up with Eric Johnson of Consortio Services to do...
2009-01-08
715 reads
Windows 7 Beta Release Friday
Tomorrow Microsoft will make Windows 7 beta available for download. I’m a little skeptical but I think just about anyone...
2009-01-08
671 reads
Analysis Services 2005 Deployment Wizard - Built by Design (Bug)
We use the Analysis Services Deployment Wizard when moving our cubes from Dev to QA and then QA to Prod. ...
2009-01-07
317 reads
Measuring My Goals
Yesterday I wrote about some goals for 2009 here at SQLServerCentral. It’s a list of stuff that I want to...
2009-01-07
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Networking - Part 2
Yesterday I started discussing networking and the idea that it's time invested with no guarantee of a return on that...
2009-01-07
743 reads
Organizing RSS Feeds
I have a lot of blogs I subscribe to. Well over 500 at last count. And the truth of the...
2009-01-07
723 reads
Presenting at SQL Saturday Tampa
I received word earlier today that I’ll be presenting at the upcoming SQL Saturday event in Tampa, Florida on January...
2009-01-07
973 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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SQL Server 2025 Backup Compression Algorithm
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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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