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May I help you?

With the Vancouver games underway, I have been reflecting on the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.  Those were the greatest winter...

2010-02-18

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DBA.Sleep(8hrs)

I have been pondering recently what helps me to sleep at night.  Or, conversely, what prevents me from sleeping at...

2010-02-17

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In Vs. Inner Join

This is tightly related to another of my forays into tuning some slowly/poorly performing processes.  This process came across my...

2010-02-16

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PayPeriod II

I recently blogged about a solution I had decided to use in order to solve a problem related to PayPeriod...

2010-02-14

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Relationships

This month Rob Farley is hosting TSQL-Tuesday #3.  The topic is Relationships and he has left it wide open for...

2010-02-09

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Key Discovery III

Recursively traverse system views to build a Hierarchical Perspective into the database.
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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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