Implicit Conversion Fail
Implicit conversions are not uncommon in the computing world and can be viewed as kind of a fail-safe for when we don't quite follow decent practices when designing the...
2019-05-31
7 reads
Jason Brimhall
Puzzles and Daily Trivia
One of my favorite database automations is to send trivia style questions daily. This helps me to mentor and assess other dba talent within an organization without being too...
2019-05-31 (first published: 2019-05-14)
250 reads
Mass Backup All Sessions
Migrating Extended Event Sessions from one server to another should be a simple task. So simple, one would think there was no need to give it a second thought,...
2019-05-23
3 reads
Mass Backup All Sessions
Migrating Extended Event Sessions from one server to another should be a simple task. So simple, one would think there was no need to give it a second thought,...
2019-05-23
4 reads
Event Log File Paths
How does one consistently find the correct path to the Extended Event Log file (XEL file)? This article shows a thorough method to capture that information for all sessions...
2019-05-20
7 reads
Event Log File Paths
How does one consistently find the correct path to the Extended Event Log file (XEL file)? This article shows a thorough method to capture that information for all sessions...
2019-05-20
9 reads
Event Log File Paths
How does one consistently find the correct path to the Extended Event Log file (XEL file)? This article shows a thorough method to capture that information for all sessions...
2019-05-20
209 reads
Puzzles and Daily Trivia
One of my favorite database automations is to send trivia style questions daily. This helps me to mentor and assess other dba talent within an organization without being too...
2019-05-14
5 reads
Puzzles and Daily Trivia
One of my favorite database automations is to send trivia style questions daily. This helps me to mentor and assess other dba talent within an organization without being too...
2019-05-14
12 reads
Database Recovery Monitoring with XE
Database recovery (crash recovery) is a nerve wrenching situation under the wrong conditions. It can be as bad as a root canal and just as necessary to endure that...
2019-04-22 (first published: 2019-04-10)
625 reads
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
SQL Server 2019 - Agent job PowerShell step issue
I have a couple of SQL Agent job steps which run PowerShell commands of...
Database security permissions save script
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Database backup job steps
I have a SQL Agent job for backing up a set of Analysis Services...
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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