Stretch Pricing
The Stretch database feature in SQL Server 2016 is fantastic, but is it too expensive?
2016-06-15
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Editorials
2016-06-14
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2016-06-13
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The Penalty for a Data Breach
One of the things that will be debated quite a bit in the next few years will be the penalties for data loss.
2016-06-13
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2016-06-10
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2016-06-09
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2016-06-07
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A New Sample Database
Microsoft has released the first version of a new sample database for SQL Server.
2016-06-06
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2016-06-06
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Accept Failure
Today Steve Jones talks about the risk inherent in any project, and how we should be aware of our mistakes, learn from them, and sometimes just give up when we've made too many.
2016-06-03 (first published: 2012-02-22)
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Blogs
2025 Wrapped for Steve
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
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
Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...
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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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