Your Quick Introduction to Extended Events in Analysis Services
XEvents is a power tool in SQL Server. While it may still be rather immature in the world of SSAS, it still has a great deal of benefit and...
2021-01-01
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Blog Posts
Your Quick Introduction to Extended Events in Analysis Services
XEvents is a power tool in SQL Server. While it may still be rather immature in the world of SSAS, it still has a great deal of benefit and...
2021-01-01
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Your Quick Introduction to Extended Events in Analysis Services
XEvents is a power tool in SQL Server. While it may still be rather immature in the world of SSAS, it still has a great deal of benefit and...
2021-01-01
4 reads
Your Quick Introduction to Extended Events in Analysis Services
XEvents is a power tool in SQL Server. While it may still be rather immature in the world of SSAS, it still has a great deal of benefit and...
2021-01-01
4 reads
Your Quick Introduction to Extended Events in Analysis Services
XEvents is a power tool in SQL Server. While it may still be rather immature in the world of SSAS, it still has a great deal of benefit and...
2021-01-01
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Daily Coping 31 Dec 2020
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2020-12-31
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End of an Era – SQL PASS and Lessons learned
Most of my blog is filled with posts related to PASS in some way. Events, various volunteering opportunities, keynote blogging, this or that…With the demise of the organization, I...
2020-12-31 (first published: 2020-12-22)
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Firewall Ports You Need to Open for Availability Groups
This article has demonstrated a meaningful and efficient method to test and validate the necessary firewall ports for Availability Groups (AG) and WFC.
The post Firewall Ports You Need to...
2020-12-31
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Hope!
2020 was a rough year. We’ve had friends and family leave us. Jobs lost. Health scares a plenty and that’s ... Continue reading
2020-12-31
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Logging the history of my past SQL Saturday presentations
(2020-Dec-31) PASS (formerly known as the Professional Association for SQL Server) is the global community for data professionals who use the Microsoft data platform. On December 17, 2020 PASS announced...
2020-12-31
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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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