Another Use of XML
XBRL is yet another use of XML, this time for financial reporting. It is supposed to be in place for...
2008-12-30
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Blog Posts
End of 2008 Wrap Up Post
Something new for the end of the year - a recap of everything I posted for 2008. 303 posts if the...
2008-12-30
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SQL Server 2005 SP3 - Released! - quick Info
Till know everyone has the information for the SQL Server 2005 SP3 for all versions!
Download info here
What's new in SP3!...
2008-12-30
1,428 reads
SQL Server 2005 SP3 eshte realizuar
Pershendetje te gjitheve!
Përderisa kemi qenë duke punuar me SQL Server 2005 SP2, pas shumë raportimeve nga ana e shfrytëzuesve...
2008-12-30
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2008-12-29
1,518 reads
It's All About the Wireless Access
Steve Jones tells me that the biggest advantage that the Kindle offers is the ability to browse and buy a...
2008-12-29
1,393 reads
Joel Spolsky on servant leadership
With the holidays about over, I'm catching up on my RSS feed reading. This is an article from the beginning...
2008-12-29
1,615 reads
Review of Seadragon: Microsoft’s iPhone application
So I’ve spent the last couple of weeks playing around with the Seadragon application and have come to some conclusions.
Usefullness...
2008-12-29
1,477 reads
SSIS – Avoid OLE DB Command
I decided to do a little performance testing on some common SSIS “Tricks” that increase speed and effectiveness of SSIS...
2008-12-29
14,304 reads
April Fools Challenge
I know it's not April 1st yet, but I wanted to throw out a couple comments and a challenge well...
2008-12-28
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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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