Jason Brimhall


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September Events

Wow, I can’t believe it is already September of 2012.  Labor day has come and gone, school is in session and the SQL Community is still busy.  With that,...

2012-09-04

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Where in the World is…

You may or may not have noticed that over the past several months I have been somewhat absent from my blog.  Very few articles if any have been produced....

2012-07-18

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A Trio of EachDB

When administering a larger database environment, sometimes one needs to perform repetitive tasks.  Performing repetitive tasks becomes more and more painful (maybe even demoralizing) with the larger the number...

2012-07-17

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A Trio of EachDB

When administering a larger database environment, sometimes one needs to perform repetitive tasks.  Performing repetitive tasks becomes more and more...

2012-07-17

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SQL Hide ‘n Seek

When was the last time you had to find something within your database?  Did it feel more like a child’s game or an arduous task? What would you say...

2012-07-11

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Maintenance Plan Owner

We all inherit things from time to time through our profession.  Sometimes we inherit some good things, sometimes we inherit...

2012-07-02 (first published: )

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2025 Wrapped for Steve

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I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...

The Book of Redgate: Spread across the world

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This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...

Merry Christmas

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Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...

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SQL Server 2019 - Agent job PowerShell step issue

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Database security permissions save script

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Database backup job steps

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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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