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Weekly reading #18

Ready for vacations? The CodingFamily team is almost ready – we have some vacations plans including great conferences during summer and in the autumn. T-SQL bugs, pitfalls, and best...

2019-06-17

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A Double Day

I’m traveling back from Australia today. A few weeks ago I lost a day when I flew West across the Pacific. Today I get it back, with a different...

2019-06-16

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SQL Server 2025 Backup Compression Algorithm

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The Large Encoded Value

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The Side Job

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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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