Software Engineering
Some see this as a misnomer, or even an oxymoron. Many countries don't allow "engineer" to be a title for...
2008-02-16
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Blog Posts
Speaking updates
If you are anywhere near St. Louis next Wednesday night, I will be speaking at the St. Louis Visual Basic...
2008-02-16
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Is SQL Server Dead?
Someone sent me this note about a talk they'd had at their user group and the guest speaker mentioned the...
2008-02-14
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Getting Geeks (IT Pro's) To Talk at User Group Meetings
User groups have to be about more than technical content if you want to sustain them over the long term,...
2008-02-14
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Should Code Camp/SQLSaturday Be Free?
Recently I posted about making sponsorship work to lay out some ideas for events that are seeking sponsors. My friend...
2008-02-13
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Change Data Capture
I started working through some labs for my SQL Server 2008 class and one of the labs was on the...
2008-02-12
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Computed Columns Published on SSC
I wrote this article on computed columns to support some of the teaching I do for my beginner to intermediate level...
2008-02-12
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Speaker Eval Form, Part 2
My friend Mike Antonovich was kind enough to really go through my draft and provided some great feedback which I've...
2008-02-12
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Init from Backup Published on SSC
This article shows how to initialize a subscriber from a backup in SQL 2005. It's a niche technique, but it...
2008-02-11
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Kalen Delaney SQL Server Internals DVD
I did end up pre-ordering the first DVD on SQL Server internals by SQL Server MVP and SQL Server internals...
2008-02-11
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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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