Pictures from Midlands PASS Chapter Meeting
Last night the Midlands PASS Chapter had the pleasure of hosting SQL Server MVP Brian Knight. I was able to...
2008-05-28
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Blog Posts
Backups of Backups
After being gone for 4 days, I've got a little catching up to do. I try to be prepared before...
2008-05-27
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Speaking at PASS Summit 2008
Received news today that one of my submitted sessions - Should You Move Into Management - was accepted for the summit. Good...
2008-05-27
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Thoughts on Virtualization
I get a lot of questions about virtualization and really have few answers. At a high level it's not hard...
2008-05-25
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Reminder: Midlands PASS Chapter Meeting with Brian Knight
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Speaker: SQL Server MVP Brian Knight
The Midlands PASS chapter will hold a special meeting on...
2008-05-23
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SQL Saturday in Orlando
The dates for Microsoft's TechEd 2008 are fast approaching here in North America. Sandwiched between the two weeks of this year's...
2008-05-23
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Visiting Birmingham SQL Group in June
I'll be doing a presentation for the Steel City SQL Group on June 17 and then on June 18th I'm doing...
2008-05-23
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Hard Core Object Oriented Programming Guidelines
I read Andrew Binstock occassionally in SD Times and in the most recent issue he posted a list of guidelines...
2008-05-21
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Pop Quiz - What's the Max Number of Resultsets Supported by Management Studio?
Ran across this strange occurence while doing some testing. To duplicate the results (the actual code was a little more...
2008-05-20
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Review of How to Cheat at Securing SQL Server 2005
SQL Server MVP Frank Kalis has posted a short review on How to Cheat at Securing SQL Server 2005, a...
2008-05-20
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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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