…and where’s the second half gone?
I mean, it can’t be that my calendar shows December and the year is almost over? Alright, I see I...
2018-12-30
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DerFredo blogs
Half-year round-up
So, to do the name “blog” justice, I should post something every now and then. Alright, here you go, let...
2018-07-03
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Developer, speaker, blogger – how did all of this happen?
It’s been exactly two years today, that I stood on an international “stage” as a speaker for the first time,...
2018-05-11 (first published: 2018-05-03)
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Blogs
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...
Self-Hosting a Photo Server the Whole Family Can Use
By Bert Wagner
Until recently, my family's 90,000+ photos have been hidden away in the depths of...
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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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