In the last year or so, there have been a lot of articles, blog entries,and forum posts on the kinds of technical questions hiring managers can ask a prospective DBA candidate in order to determine their technical proficiency. While technical skills are...
Use these resources as aids in upgrading to SQL Server 2008. These references are from the downloadable white paper:
After a week of vacation, Steve Jones feels recharged and ready to head back to work. Today we celebrate the holiday with a blooper reel.
After a week of vacation, Steve Jones feels recharged and ready to head back to work. Today we celebrate the holiday with a blooper reel.
Longtime author Leo Peysakhovich brings us a new series on converting XML data into regular data. This article examines validating the XML data against a schema.
Steve is away this Fourth of July, so we asked Brian Donahue, head of the Red Gate product support team, and an American "exiled" in the UK, to reflect on what Independence Day means to him.
Someone asked me recently if I subscribed to any services to keep up with SQL Server content. Meaning did I "pay" for content. I said "no" at first, but wanted to follow up with more details. Since this was across Twitter , 140 characters...
This is a specification to be used by those creating a storage provider plug-in library for the SQL Server 2008 Remote BLOB Store feature.
Recent installments of our series dedicated to SQL Server 2005 Express Edition have discussed the Reporting Services component. This article provides an overview of sample reports that you can take advantage of in order to familiarize yourself with the more advanced graphical designer features present in SQL Server 2005 Express Edition-based Reporting Services.
Operators in SQL Server work hand in hand to ensure that alerts are sent to the proper person. MVP Andy Warren shows how to set these up in this SQL School video.
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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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