What's New is SSIS 2012? - Find out with Andy Leonard at the NJ SQL User Group - tonight!
As us SQL professional folks know, since the advent of SQL Server Integration Services, affectionately known as SSIS, it has...
2012-02-21
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Robert Pearl
Meme Monday - Working with Deadlines.....
Hi, all! It's been a while, since I posted a blog entry, and is directly related to today's Meme Monday...
2012-02-06
1,884 reads
Local Community Events & User Groups from Around Town....
Staying true to the meaning of SQL Community with respect to local chapters and user groups, I wanted to bring you...
2012-01-20
1,568 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #26 - Second Chances - Correlate Missing Index with Related Query
Everybody deserves a second chance in love, life, and in TSQL as well! Now that it's the beginning of a New...
2012-01-10
5,152 reads
Meme Monday - All in the #SQLFamily
Yes, it's Monday again, and not only that - it's another edition of Meme Monday (the first of 2012), started by...
2012-01-09
1,349 reads
A Tale of Two Cities - SQLSaturday Goes Global..
It was a day of warm weather, it was a day of cold weather. A tale of two cities on...
2012-01-06
2,046 reads
Q.How Many Weeks in the Year? A.It depends
ISOWEEK 52 Weeks in the Year
Stardate 12:20:2011 Week 51 SSC.Com Web Blog, Planet Earth. With only approximately two weeks left...
2012-01-06 (first published: 2011-12-20)
15,209 reads
Twas The Week After Christmas....
Holiday Greetings to all you DBA's and SQL Server professionals! This blog goes out to all of you who are on-call...
2011-12-26
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Tis The Season to be Giving...#SQLFamily
Indeed the Holiday Season is traditionally a season of giving, and being charitable to those who are less fortunate. Although giving...
2011-12-23
1,676 reads
What's in a name? SQL Server Magazine becomes SQL Server Pro.
SQL Server Magazine Reveals New Name for the Brand
Did you hear the news? SQL Server Magazine has a new...
2011-11-30
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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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Question of the Day
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