Ask the Expert Panel: NJ Special Event
Ever wanted to know all there is to know about SQL Server, and afraid to ask? Have questions about how...
2013-04-04
1,205 reads
Robert Pearl
Pragmatic Works' Master SSIS Workshop coming to NYC
Pragmatically
speaking, there’s no way you can learn all there is to know about Microsoft’s
native ETL tool, SQL Server Integration Services...
2013-04-03
2,108 reads
Tomorrow: NYC Metro SQL Server User Group Presents Paul Randal and Kimberly Trip
Well, they're baack in the City!Coming this Thursday April 4, 2013 to the Big Apple, hosted by the NYC
Metro SQL...
2013-04-03
940 reads
SQLSaturday #184 in New Haven, CT - March 2, 2013
So much SQL, and so little Saturdays. SQLSaturday is truly a world-class event
happening all over the globe. Just this
past Saturday,...
2013-02-04
1,246 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #38 - Standing Firm
I often get hung up in the whirlwind of life,
and one of the things that seems to slip my schedule,...
2013-01-08
1,834 reads
Twas The Week After Christmas - 2012 Edition
Season's Greetings and Merry Christmas! In the spirit of the holiday, I am rerunning my original parody on "Twas the...
2012-12-24
1,015 reads
Down in DC, with SQLSaturday 173!
This Saturday, major event that will shake the halls of
power gets under way for an all-day non-stop super event. Bringing...
2012-12-06
1,327 reads
NY SQL Server User Group Meeting - Bill Pearson
Thursday, November 29, 2012, brings us the November
meeting of the NY SQL
Server User Group, with BI expert, SQL MVP and...
2012-11-28
1,820 reads
TSQL Tuesday - What SQL Community Means To Me
Today is Tuesday, and its time for another edition of TSQL Tuesday #36, as we continue the eternal blog party...
2012-11-13
1,502 reads
New Book: SQL Backup and Recovery - DBA Highlight
SQLPass Summit 2012, the
world's largest and most intensive technical training conference for Microsoft SQL
Server and BI professionals is in full...
2012-11-07
1,373 reads
Blogs
Don’t Miss Out – SQL Server Query Tuning Fundamentals Starts Next Monday!
Next Monday, February 9, 2026, my one-day live online training SQL Server Query Tuning...
Monday Monitor Tips: SQL Auditing Preview
By Steve Jones
One of the features we advocates have been advocating for is a better way...
SQL Server 2025 CU1 Fixes the Docker Desktop AVX Issue on macOS
Microsoft fixed the AVX instruction issue in SQL Server 2025 CU1. The container now...
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The Decoded Value
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned from this code:
DECLARE @message VARCHAR(50) = 'Hello SQL Server 2025!'; DECLARE @encoded VARCHAR(MAX); SET @encoded = BASE64_ENCODE(CAST(@message AS VARBINARY(1000))); SELECT BASE64_DECODE(@encoded)See possible answers