Speaking at SQL Saturday Nashville
I am excited and honored to announce that I have been selected to speak at SQL Saturday Nashville on January 12, 2019. I’ve been to Nashville before, in fact...
2019-01-04
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Blog Posts
Speaking at SQLBits
I got an early Christmas present this year, I found out I had been selected to speak at SQLBits! That’s...
2019-01-04
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Speaking at SQLBits
I got an early Christmas present this year, I found out I had been selected to speak at SQLBits! That’s what I call a gift that keeps on giving....
2019-01-04
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Year in Review 2018 – The Year of Making a Difference – Up to 50
Rough Year, But 50 Kids, Can’t Beat That!
Last year was a pretty rough year personally. I totaled two cars, not...
2019-01-04
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Automating CRUD procedures generation using T-SQL (enhanced).
In this post I will describe the helper procedure that based on metadata generates numerous database objects around views and...
2019-01-03
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Changing the Collation of the Instance, the Databases, and All Columns in All User Databases: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Demystifying What “sqlservr -q” Actually Does
(last updated: 2019-01-07 @ 02:25 EST / 2019-01-07 @ 07:45 UTC )
For various reasons, people sometimes find themselves...
2019-01-03 (first published: 2018-06-12)
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Event Tracing for Windows Target
There are many useful targets within SQL Server's Extended Events. Of all of the targets, the most daunting is probably the Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) target. The ETW...
2019-01-03
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Event Tracing for Windows Target
There are many useful targets within SQL Server’s Extended Events. Of all of the targets, the most daunting is probably...
2019-01-03
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File Maintenance – Cleaning Up Old Files
Using SSIS to Maintain the File System
We have all run into a need or a desire to clean up old...
2019-01-03 (first published: 2018-12-21)
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Forecasting Kyle Kuzma’s Field Goal Percentage (FG%)
More and more tools are becoming available for data analysts and data scientists. These tools provide convenience and lower the bar...
2019-01-03 (first published: 2018-12-22)
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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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