2018 Community Influencer of the Year
A few days ago I was surprised to learn from Aaron Bertrand of SentryOne that he was selecting me as Community Influencer of the Year for 2018.
Aaron states that...
2019-01-01
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Blog Posts
2018 Community Influencer of the Year
A few days ago I was surprised to learn from Aaron Bertrand of SentryOne that he was selecting me as...
2019-01-01
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An error occurred while writing an audit trace. SQL Server is shutting down
There was this incident at one of the clients in recent past. It was a nice morning. I was enjoying the tea of the day. I just started my...
2019-01-01
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Finding Application Session Settings
One of the underused troubleshooting and performance tuning techniques is to validate the application session settings. Things can work fabulous inside of SSMS, but run miserably inside the application.
Related...
2019-01-01
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Finding Application Session Settings
One of the underused troubleshooting and performance tuning techniques is to validate the application session settings. Things can work fabulous...
2019-01-01
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Happy 2019!
As I’m writing this it’s actually still 2018, so this is both my last blog post of the year and the first blog post of the new year ??...
2019-01-01
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SQL Server Backup To Azure Storage
Once again I would like to share with you an article I wrote about backing up (and restoring) a SQL...
2019-01-01 (first published: 2018-12-19)
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SSIS Catalog Automatic Log Cleanup
Built into the SSIS catalog is a mechanism that can automatically purge log data after a set period of time....
2019-01-01 (first published: 2018-12-19)
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The most-read posts in 2018
Good morning #sqlfamily folks! The very first post in the new year 2019. Tell me: when this time passed??? The...
2019-01-01
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Why I’m Breaking Up with Facebook
I have been in a serious relationship for more than 12 years. My partner in this relationship has brought me joy through the years, but lately, I feel like...
2019-01-01
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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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