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2019 Year in Review

As we open 2020 (and the house is still quiet on this New Year’s Morning), I thought I’d take a moment to reflect on the past year.
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2020-01-01

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PASS Summit 2019 in Photos

I took a bunch of photos at and around Summit this year, including more selfies than in years past - I’m getting better about it! For a few more...

2019-12-02

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PASS Summit 2019 Photowalk

This was my first year joining the Summit Photowalk organized by Jamie Wick (blog | twitter). I had a lot of fun - Seattle is full of great photo...

2019-11-29

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PASS Summit 2019 Wrap-Up

I’m home from PASS Summit 2019, recovered from the travel, and in the post-Summit “I miss #SQLFamily” funk. Time to recap the week, maybe a bit differently than it’s...

2019-11-27

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2025 Wrapped for Steve

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I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...

The Book of Redgate: Spread across the world

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This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...

Merry Christmas

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Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...

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SQL Server 2019 - Agent job PowerShell step issue

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I have a couple of SQL Agent job steps which run PowerShell commands of...

Database security permissions save script

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Database backup job steps

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I have a SQL Agent job for backing up a set of Analysis Services...

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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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