SQL Server events in the UK September 2013
Sorry things are a little later this month…Summer (like the MCM program) may be coming to an end, but we...
2013-09-04
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Richard Douglas
SQL Server events in the UK August 2013
You might have thought that the UK SQL Server scene would have gone quiet during the summer break, but far...
2013-08-01
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SQL Server Webcast: The Day After Tomorrow; Why YOU need to Baseline
Every day I consider myself extremely fortunate to be in a profession that I really enjoy, as there’s always something...
2013-07-23
784 reads
Maidenhead SQL Server User Group – 9th July with Alex Whittles and John Martin
Another month and another evening of top quality free SQL Server goodness for those living/working in the Maidenhead area of...
2013-07-05
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SQL Server Events in the UK July 2013
Last month saw SQL Relay, Tech Ed, SQL Saturday Dublin, oh and the small matter of a CTP for SQL...
2013-07-01
667 reads
Natural Born Killers (The series) – Day 8 Parameter Sniffing
To those that don’t know me “Natural Born Killers (The Series)” sounds like a very strange choice for a SQL...
2013-06-27
1,925 reads
5 community stored procedures you need for your servers
We’re blessed in the SQL Server community that there are so many people willing to share work they have done...
2013-06-27
4,067 reads
Natural Born Killers (The series) – Day 7 Table Variables vs Temp Tables
To those that don’t know me “Natural Born Killers (The Series)” sounds like a very strange choice for a SQL...
2013-06-26
2,662 reads
Natural Born Killers (The series) – Day 6 Sargability
To those that don’t know me “Natural Born Killers (The Series)” sounds like a very strange choice for a SQL...
2013-06-28 (first published: 2013-06-25)
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Natural Born Killers (The series) – Day 5 Key Lookups
To those that don’t know me “Natural Born Killers (The Series)” sounds like a very strange choice for a SQL...
2013-06-24
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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...
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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
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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