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Weekly reading #14

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2019-05-05

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Weekly reading #11

Good day folks! Let’s make this week great (again)! It is spring already there so it is easy to get up at 6am and write the blog! Now looking...

2019-04-15

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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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