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#DPS10 – preconfs

I have delivered a preconf on the biggest conference in Asia. The preconf was about Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learning with bonus track about Semi-supervised solutions. This was really...

2019-08-21

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Coffee poured into mug from machine

Weekly reading #24

Hello #SQLFamily! We are packing for the longest trip this year. Next week we will start in Shanghai, then will move to Bangalore for #DPS10 and the last week...

2019-08-06

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Cup of Coffee

Weekly reading #23

New week has started and apart from the usual information from the data world I would like to share one more. The Machine Learning topic published last week has...

2019-07-29

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Award

Weekly reading #22

A little bit late but it is here! It is Wednesday already and we are preparing for #DPS2019 which will be in August in Bangalore. Meanhwile I received another...

2019-07-24

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Person Stirring Coffee with a Spoon

Weekly reading #21

Hello, hello! We have just started new week! We missed the weekly reading last time due to travelling across the Europe over the weekend. There is however a lot...

2019-07-15

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Blogs

The Book of Redgate: Spread across the world

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Self-Hosting a Photo Server the Whole Family Can Use

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Until recently, my family's 90,000+ photos have been hidden away in the depths of...

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The Large Encoded Value

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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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