Natural Born Killers (The series) – Day 4 Indices
To those that don’t know me “Natural Born Killers (The Series)” sounds like a very strange choice for a SQL...
2013-06-20
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Richard Douglas
Natural Born Killers (The series) – Day 3 Scalar UDF’s
To those that don’t know me “Natural Born Killers (The Series)” sounds like a very strange choice for a SQL...
2013-06-19
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Natural Born Killers (The series) – Day 2 Table Design
To those that don’t know me “Natural Born Killers (The Series)” sounds like a very strange choice for a SQL...
2013-06-21 (first published: 2013-06-18)
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Natural Born Killers (The series) – Day 1 Statistics
To those that don’t know me “Natural Born Killers (The Series)” sounds like a very strange choice for a SQL...
2013-06-20 (first published: 2013-06-17)
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Natural Born Killers (The series)
To those that don’t know me “Natural Born Killers (The Series)” sounds like a very strange choice for a SQL...
2013-06-17
705 reads
Improving performance by using SET STATISTICS IO
When I started using SQL Server the company I was working for at the time had no skill in this...
2013-06-14
2,854 reads
Maidenhead SQL Server User Group 11th June with Chris Webb and David Morrison
Tonight I am organising a User Group at Maidenhead in the UK which marks the start of a huge month of SQL...
2013-06-11
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An interview with Alex Whittles Chairman of SQLRelay 2013
Some of you may recall in January I ran a series of interviews entitled “New Year Aspirations”. This interview was...
2013-06-05
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SQL Server Events in the UK – June 2013
Oh my god, there are so many events happening this month it is crazy. I’m going to break with tradition...
2013-06-03
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Microsoft announce SQL Server 2014
As the world is going green, Microsoft announced today that it is going “Blue”. Confused? I’ll explain all in a...
2013-06-03
1,261 reads
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
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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
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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