How was it done back in the day? T-SQL Tuesday #114
It’s TSQL Tuesday and Matthew McGiffen (b/t) is our host with a subject near and dear to my heart. Puzzles! ... Continue reading
2019-05-27 (first published: 2019-05-14)
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Blog Posts
Maximum Number of Rows for the Table Value Constructor
What is the maximum number of rows for the Table Value Constructor? And, do different uses of it behave differently?… Continue reading Maximum Number of Rows for the Table...
2019-05-27 (first published: 2019-05-09)
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(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan - you get a weekly email packed with all the essential knowledge you need to know about performance...
2019-05-27
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SQL Server Development Best Practices – Webinar
I’m delighted to announce I’ll be giving a webinar for MSSQLTips.com about SQL Server Development Best Practices. Aka writing T-SQL and stuff ?? The webcast is the 13th of...
2019-05-27
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Weekly reading #15
SQLDay 2019 is gone. The Data Community.PL has now a new goal – it is the SQL Saturday #914 in Torun. The speakers will be announced after July 30th....
2019-05-27
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Last Weeks Reading (2019-05-26)
It was tremendously extensive week for me (a week ago) when I spent time between two conferences: SQLDay (Wroclaw, Poland) and SQL Saturday #857 (Kiev, Ukraine). I’ve been helping...
2019-05-26
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Migrating SSIS to Azure – Slidedeck (Techorama 2019)
Techorama 2019 is over and it was a blast, as usual. Neatly organised, great speakers and fantastic content. I delivered a session on Migrating SSIS to Azure (Data Factory)....
2019-05-25
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Animating a Magic 8 Ball in SQL Server Management Studio
This post is a response to this month’s T-SQL Tuesday #114 prompt by Matthew McGiffen. T-SQL Tuesday is a way for the SQL Server community to share ideas about different database...
2019-05-24 (first published: 2019-05-14)
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DevOps Is About Communication
I spend a lot of time showing how to use tools to automate database deployments in support of DevOps. However, the one message that I always try to deliver...
2019-05-24 (first published: 2019-05-13)
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Mini-Rant: Spoofed Phone Numbers and Trust
I’ve seen this more and more over the last year: I receive a phone call with a number that indicates it’s coming from a town or city near me....
2019-05-24
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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
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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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