Notes on SQL

Random articles from a puzzled DBA

Introduction Binary Large Objects (BLOB) data can be a graphical image, a pdf document, a music file or any of a wide range of data types, which can generally be saved into a SQL Server database. As part of a series of investigations I’m currently performing within SQL Server, I have looked at how BLOB …

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Introduction In a previous article article, I wrote about how to find out where the SQL Server error log is located. That particular article was in case your server instance did not start and you needed more information. If your SQL Server instance is working, there is another way to find the location of the …

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