Quarter of a Century Competition on P2P
P2P, the programmer's resource centre from Wrox Press, reached a milestone of 25,000 subscribers this week. To celebrate this fact, Wrox are giving away $1000 worth of books and ASPToday subscriptions in a free prize draw. For more details on how to enter, please visit: http://p2p.wrox.com/25k.asp. The draw will be made on July 16th.
SQL Server 2000 Trigger Enhancements
This article by Neil Boyle looks at the enhancements to triggers that SQL Server 2000 brings.
The Software Conspiracy
This book discusses some of the issues that exist today in software. A good read for anyone developing software.
Using Stored Procedures in SQL Server
If you’re a programmer, you know that SQL is becoming more and more prevalent. Here’s a guide to one of its basic building blocks the stored procedure.
Career Advice for DBAs
Looking to advance your career? Trying to get started as a DBA? Some advice from a DBA with ten years working with SQL Server
FAQ : Why can't I see my text field's data when using ADO?
In this FAQ of the week, you'll see one of the most common bugs that programmers run into when programming using ADO against a SQL Server.
Taming the Stateless Beast: Managing Session State
Running a Web farm means managing session state across servers. Since session state can't be shared across a Web farm with Internet Information Services 5.0, a custom solution is required. One such solution using a tool called the session manager is described here.
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...
Forums
Database backup job steps
I have a SQL Agent job for backing up a set of Analysis Services...
SQL Server 2025 Backup Compression Algorithm
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The Large Encoded Value
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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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