Free/Cheap/Good HTML Editor, Is There Such a Thing?
For the past few years I've been using Frontpage 2003 for basic HTML work, usually to write content for SQLServerCentral....
2008-10-28
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Blog Posts
Miramar User Group and SQL Saturday Presentations
Here are the two presentations from last week. On Thursday I went to Miramar, Florida and presented Fortress SQL Server....
2008-10-27
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Post Event Notes - SQLSaturday #8
Yesterday I posted an overview of the event, today I want to go over some areas where we excelled, and...
2008-10-27
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Post Event SQL Saturday #8 Orlando
This weekend I spoke at Seminole Community College with a session on Reporting Services 2008. If your interested you can...
2008-10-27
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Absolutely (Not?) - Why Did I Write This?
I've always been a little bit of a strong DBA. I try to get along and work with people, being...
2008-10-26
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SQLSaturday #8 - Orlando
The whole idea of having free events, bringing learning to people locally wasn't something that I was thrilled with. It's...
2008-10-26
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After Event Notes on SQLSaturday #8 in Orlando
By any measure the event was a success. We had a solid 275 attendees this year, up about 50 from last...
2008-10-25
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Good Ideas Take Time or How to Brainstorm - Part 2
In Good Ideas Take Time or How to Brainstorm - Part 1 I wrote about how I come up with ideas...
2008-10-23
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Out of Band Security Bulletin Release for Microsoft Windows
Microsoft tries to stick with the second Tuesday for security bulletin releases and has only released out-of-band a handful of...
2008-10-23
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ways to find the name of a running job
From time to time, I need to check (in my script) which jobs are running at the moment.So far, I...
2008-10-23
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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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Database backup job steps
I have a SQL Agent job for backing up a set of Analysis Services...
SQL Server 2025 Backup Compression Algorithm
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The Large Encoded Value
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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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