SQL Saturday Jacksonville
I just wrapped up a high-octane day of SQL Server community education at SQL Saturday in Jacksonville, Florida. This event,...
2008-05-04
867 reads
Blog Posts
Are Backup Devices Obsolete?
I thought they were, but I've had a bit of a debate in the forums with someone. There was a...
2008-05-02
694 reads
Displaying Multi-select Parameters in SSRS
Including the parameter values to the physical report so they get printed with the business data is a best practice...
2008-05-02
481 reads
Off-topic: The Citadel Honors Class That Did Not Graduate
The purpose of The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, is to prepare South Carolina's citizen soldiers. It is...
2008-05-02
871 reads
Podcast Upgrades
A minor change for the podcasts next week. I got my wireless microphone, and I'm working with it a bit...
2008-05-02
1,915 reads
Looking for Incremental Improvements
If you've read my blog much you'll know that I'm deeply involved in trying to figure out how to build...
2008-05-01
529 reads
Technorati
I've never really been a big fan of many of the aggregation sites. As such I have never really used...
2008-05-01
712 reads
The Post Count
One of the things that I made a conscious effort to do last summer was make a regular effort to...
2008-05-01
725 reads
Review of Pro SQL Server 2005 High Availability
I grabbed Pro SQL Server 2005 High Availability by Allan Hirt recently to add to the library and I've been...
2008-04-30
1,363 reads
Building Raffle Tickets for SQLSaturday
Raffle tickets have become a mainstay of our events, making it easy to handle the large volume of items donated...
2008-04-29
1,611 reads
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...
Forums
SQL Server 2025 Backup Compression Algorithm
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Server 2025 Backup Compression...
The Large Encoded Value
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The Large Encoded Value
The Side Job
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The Side Job
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?
See possible answers