2019-09-26T13:58:58+00:00
TEST You know you probably reserved the wrong hotel when you drive around from the back and think it's a condemned building, only to come around the front and...
2019-09-26
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Blog Posts
2019-09-26T14:04:40+00:00
TEST I have a new term for the wait my daughter eats food. Instead of please stop wearing food all over your face and eat proper I'm going to...
2019-09-26
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ASF 025: Rob Farley interview
Introduction Rob Farley is a Microsoft Certified Master, Microsoft Certified Trainer and is a recipient of the Microsoft MVP Award for SQL Server since 2006. Rob provides consulting and...
2019-09-26
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Check Query Progress with Live Query Stats
This is something I touched on back in 2017 a little after the Live Query Statistics feature was introduced with SQL 2016, but I was using the functionality this...
2019-09-26 (first published: 2019-09-18)
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SQL Server Statistics Health Reminder
I’ve written about statistics in SQL Server a few times now. Through conversations I am reminded that not everyone keeps their table statistics up to date. Keeping your statistics...
2019-09-26 (first published: 2019-09-18)
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An Effective Solution to Resolve SQL Database Corruption
I am a SQL Administrator and today I will share my experience about an issue on SQL server, which corrupted the transaction logs and left the database in a...
2019-09-25 (first published: 2019-09-17)
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Blogging and coding best practices
I had a discussion a while back, I think it was with Grant Fritchey (b/t) but I just can’t remember. ... Continue reading
2019-09-25
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Gatekeeping and Accessibility
In my final post about gatekeeping in technology, I have to come clean about something. Let’s go through this journey together. In the first post we spoke about what...
2019-09-25
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Hot Patching sqlservr.exe in Azure SQL Database
An amazing blog post by Microsoft describing the idea of hot patching the database engine in Azure SQL Database to allow for minimal downtime when applying patches to SQL...
2019-09-25
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Losing Another Day
I’m going to lose today again. This time I’m headed back to Australia and in flight. I wonder if I’ll get used to this, as I expect between work...
2019-09-25
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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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