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Weekly reading #30

Good morning in November! We were all looking at the Microsoft Ignite in Orlando last week. And it happened! SQL Server 2019 is now generally available – more details...

2019-11-11

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Weekly reading #30

Good morning in November! We were all looking at the Microsoft Ignite in Orlando last week. And it happened! SQL Server 2019 is now generally available – more details...

2019-11-11

9 reads

Coffee and Granules

Weekly reading #29

The Data Breach Game: The 9 Worst IT Security Practices Joey D’Antoni shows bad practices for security in SQL Server. He summarizes all the most important areas you should...

2019-10-21

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Weekly reading #29

The Data Breach Game: The 9 Worst IT Security Practices Joey D’Antoni shows bad practices for security in SQL Server. He summarizes all the most important areas you should...

2019-10-21

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Interview with Bob Ward

This is the eight interview we have done. This time our guest is the one and the only Bob Ward! Bob Ward is a Principal Architect for the Microsoft...

2019-10-30 (first published: )

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Coffee

Weekly reading #28

September is over. This was not a good month for us. We had to cancel the conferences planned for September and were not able to write as much as...

2019-10-10

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Weekly reading #28

September is over. This was not a good month for us. We had to cancel the conferences planned for September and were not able to write as much as...

2019-10-10

6 reads

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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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