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2018-11-28
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Blog Posts
How to be an MVP Book
When it comes to characteristics of an MVP, the two groups (geek and jock) are no longer at the opposite ends of the spectrum. Rather, they are very similar...
2018-11-28
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How to be an MVP Book
How to be an MVP in LIFE
One of the fun things about being involved in the community is the opportunity...
2018-11-28
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How to Write a Better T-SQL Code
Here are some basic guidelines that are good to consider when writing T-SQL (Transact SQL). These tips and hints are...
2018-11-28 (first published: 2018-11-16)
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PASS Summit 2018 - A Lesson in Personal Branding
Last year at PASS Summit 2017, I heard a number of comments related to people not recognizing me without the hat in my social media photo/avatar. The linked post...
2018-11-28
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Price increase for Azure in Canadian dollars
On 1 December 2018, Microsoft is increasing Azure subscription prices in Canadian dollars by 5%. The following is taken directly...
2018-11-28
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T-SQL Tuesday 108 – Learning R
I am the proud host of TSQL Tuesday for the month of November 2018.
My call to post entries is here ....
2018-11-28 (first published: 2018-11-18)
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Auditing when Database Files Change
As a Database Administrator, something that should be part of your database audit is monitoring the growth of files. That means tracking when the log file grows and tracking...
2018-11-27
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Auditing when Database Files Change
As a Database Administrator, something that should be part of your database audit is monitoring the growth of files. That...
2018-11-27
490 reads
Brute Forcing SQL Logins and Passwords
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Following up on last week's post about the different types of SQL injection, this week I want to show how injection can be used...
2018-11-27
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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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Question of the Day
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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