Make the most of your PASS Summit Evenings
At this year’s PASS Summit, I’ll only be around for a short time, and really only Monday night. I have two pre-cons to do and then need to get...
2019-10-26
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Blog Posts
Databricks Delta Lake
Introduced in April 2019, Databricks Delta Lake is, in short, a transactional storage layer that runs on top of cloud storage such as Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen2...
2019-10-25 (first published: 2019-10-15)
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Read-only Replica -AG
Read only replica is a great concept where we can re-direct all the read only connections to that replica. Following are some of the great articles for it....
2019-10-25
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Setting Permissions for a SQL Server backup folder–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. While testing a script recently, I needed to...
2019-10-25 (first published: 2019-10-16)
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Should I Be Worried About skip-2.0?
A new piece of malware which hooks into SQL Server, skip-2.0, has been making the tech media rounds. If you’ve not read about it yet or you’re looking for...
2019-10-25
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Thinking About Robert Davis
It’s been more than a year and a half since Robert Davis passed away. I wrote a bit about Robert’s passing last April. I haven’t written about him since,...
2019-10-25
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Are Stored Procedures Faster Than Stand-Alone Queries?
Watch this week’s episode on YouTube. A few months ago I was presenting for a user group when someone asked the following question: Does a query embedded in a...
2019-10-24 (first published: 2019-10-15)
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Building my schedule for PASS Summit 2019
It’s just ten days until PASS Summit 2019 begins in Seattle. The schedule is up and there are loads of good sessions. Here’s what I’m putting on my calendar...
2019-10-24
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Finding the Primary Replica of an Availability Group
This is going to be a bit of a quick post but one about something that I see coming up time and time again on SQL Undercover’s search terms....
2019-10-24
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Geneology with SQL Graph – Part II
In the previous post I explored a query on how to construct a basic family tree with sql graph – including table set up and queries. In this post...
2019-10-24
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Blogs
2025 Wrapped for Steve
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
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...
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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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