Jason Brimhall


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Seldom Used Indexes

On occasion you may ask yourself if there are any under used indexes in your database.  If not you, then possibly a manager or client.  Usually this comes up...

2012-03-20

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Another Interesting Sort

Some code requirements can be met through various means including the use of a different collation - which means a lot of testing.
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Agent Jobs Using SSIS

This is a short script to help the DBA with documentation purposes.  This would come in handy especially in those cases where you are consulting or you have taken...

2012-03-15

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What is a Favicon?

If I were to show you the tabs in the following pic without a description, would you recognize the websites to which they belong? I would dare say that...

2012-03-08

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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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