Choosing the right professional
I’m writing this blog post from my bed, you may think that’s a little too much information there is a...
2012-01-11
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Richard Douglas
2011 – The dissection
Blimey, doesn’t seem like a year since I wrote my last end of year review End of year review 2010...
2012-01-01
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Why I blog #Meme15
I’d seen various #meme tweets on twitter but it wasn’t until I saw this blog by John Sansom (Blog|Twitter) that...
2011-12-15
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T-SQL Tuesday #025 – How to view the size of all your databases – #TSQL2sDay
It’s that time of the month again, no not time, T-SQL time! If you have not heard of T-SQL Tuesday...
2011-12-13
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Speaking Engagements
It only seems like a couple of weeks ago since I wrote a post about new years resolutions which you...
2011-11-15
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Writing queries without data
Sometimes it’s not possible to have the data you need in order to create the most efficient queries possible. This...
2011-11-15
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Top 5 Third Party Quotes
Unless you’ve worked in a vacuum the likelyhood is that you either are a third company or you have many...
2011-11-09
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SQLRelay: The Final Sprint
The UK SQL community has never had so many events in such a short space of time. Last week there...
2011-10-06
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SQLRelay: The Third Leg
Feedback from the second leg of SQLRelay was very positive indeed. The attendees from my Maidenhead group were very impressed...
2011-10-05
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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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