Transaction Log Structure
Intro This post shows the internal logical structure of the SQL Server Transaction Log. The details here target SQL Server 2000 to 2017. Note that SQL Server 2019 will...
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Sometimes things are not exactly how we think they are. Read the story of the missing default value and learn why.
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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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