I earned a Computer Science degree in the early 80's. Back then it was less about programming and more about the theory of computability, languages, operating systems, compilers,...

The original 1960's Batmobile with real working batcessories (and new tires)

Our content was text and xml, so compression rates were very high.

Good luck and keep us posted on your progress!

We implemented this technique successfully, but our Blobs were typically in the 10-50K range - never more that 5MB, and most access was via single row (2 or 3 blobs...

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Nope, it was for Mr. Icocks, who said his key combo didn't work in SSMS 2008 🙂

Is it possible that your Ctrl+Shift+M is being caught by another program?

I had this issue with a similar key sequence where an HP diagnostic (or update manager?) was catching them...

We're in Minnesota, so this time of year the term "heaven" is debatable.

Sounds like you've still got a bit of "us vs. them" going on... they might be chucking a...

Hi Grant - I just came across this discussion and was wondering how your project is going.

I'm on a team that is reengineering a very large application (was...

Hasn't anyone mentioned the main computer on the original Starship Enterprise?

I loved those little disks Spock slipped into slots on various tables / stations.

And the voice 🙂

The use of the word "Matrix" makes me wonder if MS is doing (or has acquired) some of the distributed lock and storage management techniques from Polyserve. This certainly...

I have not tried SQLCompress.NET.  We are less inclined to use smaller third party add ons.  Not that they're bad, but in the end, the corporate red-tape involved in getting...

Hi Yoel - I enjoyed your article on blob compression - but I believe there is a bug in the compression function...

I was starting to work on the same concept (as...

Be careful with sp_depends.  It does not report dependent objects that exist in databases other than your current database - i.e. if you have a cross database query in your...

I'll give it a try next week - thanks.