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SQL Query Result Order
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SQL Logical Query Processing Order
This probably applies more to beginners or people who have been using SQL for a while but have been wondering...
2013-06-03
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SQL and Relational Theory
Do you know the foundation of SQL? According to the book Querying Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Training Kit on the...
2013-05-31
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The right terminology for the right audience
For those who has the privilege of being in the technology consulting industry for some time and started out in...
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Address Clean-up for Mail Merge using SSIS
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Question of the Day
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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