"To Lead Is To Follow"
I first ran across these words as a Citadel cadet. Now those who know of my days at El Cid...
2008-10-19
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Blog Posts
Final Preparations for SQLSaturday #8 on October 25th, 2008
I suspect final preparations will stretch all the way through next Saturday morning, but at this point we've done most...
2008-10-19
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Run Your Business as a Business
I’ve thought this for a long time: you need to run your business as a business, not an investment. Too...
2008-10-19
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Speaking in West Palm Beach and Orlando
I have two speaking engagements for the week of October 19:
South Florida SQL Server User Group - West Palm Beach - October...
2008-10-18
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The Financial Crisis - Why Did I Write This?
I've had a bunch of writings based on finances over the last couple weeks, and I've tried to spread them...
2008-10-17
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When Do You Know That You Know
Why, when you can help others, that's when!
In my role as a senior Moderator with the MSDN SQL Forums, I am often...
2008-10-17
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How Many Drive Letters Do You Use for SQL Server?
I was teaching a private class recently that had both DBA's and network types in the room, one of the...
2008-10-16
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Uninstalling Software (Sucks) and Why Computers Are Still Slow
I've just recently acquired a new laptop and my resolution is to install no software on it that I'm not...
2008-10-16
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What's Your Job Title?
As I travel and visit DBAs from around the United States, I am always surprised at the job titles DBA...
2008-10-16
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Big and Small - Why Did I Write This?
I've always been very concerned about where I work. Well, maybe not always, since early in my career I took...
2008-10-15
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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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