Looking for Free Educational Events to Attend?
Every week, there are dozen of free educational events to attend throughout the United States. The sad part is that...
2008-10-15
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Blog Posts
Financial Trust
I’m sure that the people at Mint and Thrive have people’s best interests at heart. They built services designed to...
2008-10-14
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Flyclear Revisited
Back in May I wrote about signing up for FlyClear as a way to save time travelling and in doing so,...
2008-10-14
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Too Good at Data Analysis - Why Did I Write This?
The past few weeks have been a rough one all around the globe as economies aren't doing well. I studied...
2008-10-14
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Back to 400
I had to research a bit, write some code, and look up things to answer questions this morning. I must...
2008-10-13
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Data Farming - Why Did I Write This?
I grew up in the Cold War, with real concern that the Russians would attack us someday. I wanted to...
2008-10-13
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Double Posting
I think that it’s a great idea to keep a few blogs going, and separate out your thoughts in different...
2008-10-13
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LiveWriter
I’ve been experimenting a bit in the blogging world, setting up a few blog accounts and trying different services. I...
2008-10-13
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Post Event Notes on SQLSaturday #5 & SQLSaturday #9, and Future Plans
Thought I'd post these notes based on feedback from the event organizers, wasn't able to attend myself due to scheduling...
2008-10-13
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Should I Run for the PASS Board of Directors?
I saw the recent Call for Nominations for the election this year, so the title of this post is only...
2008-10-13
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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
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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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