Distributed Monoliths
What is a distributed monolith vs. a microservice architecture? Steve has a few thoughts today.
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Microservices
Steve doesn't think microservices work with relational databases, but maybe you can convince him otherwise.
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Microservices in Promise and Practice
Are microservices the cure for the ague of monolithic applications, or do they bring their own problems with them that monolithic architectures have circumvented? Are they capable of delivering applications that are easier to maintain and develop? How can they avoid the failings of service-oriented architectures? Once more, Robert Sheldon gets to the heart of the technical issues.
2015-04-30
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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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