Panel Interview Part III Posted
As a follow-up to yesterday's post, Part III of the SQL Server panel interview has been posted on-line. A name I...
2008-07-30
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Blog Posts
Stored Procedures Reconsidered
Quite the debate going on from today's editorial: Stored Procedures Reconsidered. I chimed in late, and going on the "pro-sprocs"...
2008-07-30
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Rebuilding Stats: Twice or Not at All Posted on SSC
Rebuilding Stats was published yesterday on SSC, some nice comments posted to it as well. The main point of the...
2008-07-29
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SQL Server Panel Interview
I was asked by Odin Jobs to participate in an email interview on SQL Server. Joining me on the panel...
2008-07-29
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Tool Review: Servers Alive
Not all of us work at companies big enough to justify the expense/time it takes to implement something like MS...
2008-07-29
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IP6 Addresses Could Break Your DB
I saw this post from Rick Strahl about IP6 Addresses in Vista breaking some code, and it immediately made sense...
2008-07-28
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Congratulations to Glenn Berry - SQL Server MVP
I just leaned today that Glenn Berry has had his MVP award renewedfor another year. If you have not read...
2008-07-27
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Tool Review: Microsoft Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel
It's downright common these days to download programs as ISO images, but XP doesn't have a native viewer for them....
2008-07-27
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Database Weekly
At least this project is moving forward. We deployed a new design to the site this week, and turned it...
2008-07-26
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A Bad Karma Project
We've had a project underway to upgrade these blogs, moving to a newer version of Community Server, better skinned, etc....
2008-07-25
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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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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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