Sorted views in 2005 and TOP clause
These examples show how You can circumvent the problem with not working TOP 100 PERCENT and ORDER BY in views.
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Change column type on constrained columns
Use this proc if you need to alter a column that is part of a primery key
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2005 Clean Indexes For All Databases on a Server
Check Indexes on all databases and rebuild/reindex based on fragmentation
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String Tokenizer with Complex Search
Sample solution to replace string in expressions with multiple delimiters.
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The Large Encoded Value
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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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