Book Sale
SQLServerCentral.com is having a sale. Support the site and get some valuable information for your library.
2005-01-24
2,626 reads
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SQLServerCentral.com Email Changes
The staff at SQLServerCentral.com really appreciates your support and contributions to the community. We are always looking to improve things here and we have made a couple changes to the way our email system works.
2005-01-11
2,976 reads
Webcast: Six Principles for Increasing the Speed of Business Intellige
Trey Johnson, a PASS board member and a senior business intelligence consultant, is doing a webcast on Tuesday. Join him for a great talk getting a business intelligence system up and successful in your environment.
2005-01-10
2,660 reads
SQLServerCentral.com Celebrates our 200,000 Member Milestone
Many thanks from Andy, Brian, and Steve to everyone for their participation and efforts in building the best SQL Server site and the best community on the Internet. In appreciation of their efforts, we've given away a few gifts to some random members.
2005-01-10
2,477 reads
Decorum in the Forums
One of the most valuable features of SQLServerCentral.com is the discussion forums, where many a DBA has found an answer to their question. Most times on the same day! While we do not moderate the forums, there are still some rules for posting that we hope everyone will take a moment to read.
2005-01-03
3,247 reads
TiVo for DBAs!!!
SQLServerCentral.com is all about learning. Our goal has been to build a community where we all teach each other how to become more proficient with SQL Server. Most of our content to date has been written articles that show you how to do something. Well we have a a better idea, maybe. Check out our new video HOWTO series.
2004-12-16
3,749 reads
What's SQLServerCental.com All About
With some recent hubub and questions, Steve Jones decided to spend a few moments welcoming everyone to the community and give some background on what this site is all about.
2004-12-07
4,193 reads
2004 Readers Choice Awards Results
SQLServerCentral.com wrapped up two weeks of voting by the community on the best third party products to help you with your SQL Servers. Read on to see who won.
2004-11-24
6,687 reads
Beta Developers Wanted
Mattias Fagerlund, a longtime author and contributor here is developing a new product to help developers migrate between versions of their databases. He's searching for a few Beta developers to assist.
2004-11-23
2,774 reads
Two Minute SQL Server Stumpers
How prepared are you for your next interview? How prepared are you to give one? SQLServerCentral.com has compiled a number of questions from our ever popular Question of the Day into a book. Read about the project and show your support today by picking up a copy.
2004-11-22
6,530 reads
Blogs
2025 Wrapped for Steve
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Merry Christmas
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Forums
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I have a couple of SQL Agent job steps which run PowerShell commands of...
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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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