Get MAXimum functionality
SQL 2005 provides a the new max specifier to be used with varbinary, varchar and nvarchar data types. You can...
2005-11-12
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Blog Posts
Poll
If you haven't seen it, I started a poll in the editorial today. Check it out and give you answer:...
2005-11-11
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Day Zero
Today's the day!!!
SQL Server is being released as I type this and I'm online listening to the keynote from Steve...
2005-11-07
1,460 reads
Boycott Sony
In general I have been a Sony fan for most of my life, starting with the Walkmans they brought out...
2005-11-04
1,371 reads
Looking For Technical Editors
If anyone is interested, we are looking for people that are interested
in doing some technical editing for our magazine, the...
2005-11-02
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It's Done
I wrote the editorial today about this, but SQL Server 2005 RTM'd yesterday!!!
If you an on MSDN Subscriber, you can...
2005-10-28
1,387 reads
The Plame Saga...
Living in the D.C metro area it is difficult to avoid politics,
policies and policy-makers. After 9/11 it became well nigh
impossible ...
2005-10-28
1,382 reads
The Great Uproar and some advice
My editorial
this past week had to do with a great uproar on the interviewing piece
that ran Monday. I felt I...
2005-10-20
1,442 reads
On vacation!
It was busy at work after returning from PASS which means my work day continued for 2 or 3 hours after I got...
2005-10-16
1,285 reads
Something About Nothing: NULL
You wouldn’t think that “nothing” would cause so many problems. But seriously, understanding how to correctly use NULLs is a...
2005-10-16
1,384 reads
Blogs
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Forums
Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server
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Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Downtime Caused by the Postgres...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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