NJ SQL UG Event: 13 Advanced SSAS Tips - Kevin S. Goff returns!
He's baack! If you missed the first presentation in March, due to inclement weather, and you are local, or in...
2015-06-10
807 reads
Robert Pearl
HealthySQL - A Comprehensive Guide to Healthy SQL Server Performance Now Available - 10% off
Announcing my new book available in hard copy and eBook, HealthySQL -
A Comprehensive Guide to Healthy SQL Server Performance, by...
2015-06-08 (first published: 2015-06-03)
3,458 reads
Reblog - Memorial Day in US - Freedom is Never Free
Originally published May 2014:
Well, as all folks in the United States know, this weekend we celebrate Memorial Day,
Monday May...
2015-05-22
986 reads
HealthySQL - A Comprehensive Guide to Healthy SQL Server Performance
On an otherwise uneventful, other than the normal busy,
plate full, heading towards the US holiday weekend, middle-of-the-week, over
the hump day,...
2015-05-20
1,117 reads
SQLSaturday#380 NYC Presents The Speaker Schedule
We're a little under 3 weeks away from what is sure to be the biggest and best Big Apple SQLSaturday...
2015-05-13
649 reads
Microsoft's 1st MVP Virtual Conference - Everyone's Invited!
The Microsoft
MVP community is very excited to announce it’s very first 2015 Microsoft MVP
Virtual Conference (Microsoft V-Conf) coming to directly...
2015-05-12 (first published: 2015-04-09)
5,766 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #66 - Monitoring for a healthy SQL environment
Just heard
that today was T-SQL Tuesday #66! Well,
I knew it was Tuesday, and T-SQL comes into play once a month,...
2015-05-12
2,184 reads
SQLSaturday#380 NYC Event Update - Pre-cons Announced!
Welcome to SQLSaturday #380 - Precons Announced!
In addition to the extraordinary extravaganza SQLSaturday NYC event we have planned for Saturday, May...
2015-04-17 (first published: 2015-02-11)
6,022 reads
Apress April Fools 40% Discount Promo & Healthy SQL
April 1, 2015 – I am delighted to take part in the April
Fool’s Promotion by Publisher Apress, who are
featuring some of...
2015-03-31
1,574 reads
NJ SQL UG Event: 13 Advanced SSAS Tips - Kevin S. Goff
Greetings! If you are local, or in the NY/Central NJ area, mark you calendars for WED. MARCH 11, 2015 @ 6:00PM,...
2015-03-02
1,228 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