OK, so it’s one week to Christmas and I have to resort to a holiday theme of some sort. Things are a bit laid back this year. Our family has resorted to the Secret Santa thing to reduce the number of ...

sql server One new feature in SQL Server 2008 R2 is Unicode Compression. Unicode provides support for all the international character sets across the world including Chinese, Japanese, Korean and ...

A CLR UDT has a limit of 8000 bytes - I doubt thats big enough to pack a file into. I guess you could use custom serialization and store the compressed file in a different table using the ...

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FlashVols are volumes that are pinned in SSD so applications run at maximum performance without the potential delay due to caching algorithms or tiering policies. Combined with Tegile's de-duplication ...