Windows 7 Beta Delayed
Looks like the Windows 7 beta download has been delayed while Microsoft adds additional infrastructure support. A little disappointing but I...
2009-01-09
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Blog Posts
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
1,257 reads
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
945 reads
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
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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