How Big Data Changed Finance at Microsoft
Finance leaders today are faced with an interesting challenge. How can they consume and analyze the millions of rows of...
2014-02-04
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Eight Essential Questions for Every Corporate Innovator
Reflect before you leap into action.
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2014-02-03
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HBR’s 10 Must Reads: The Essentials
If you read nothing else, read these 10 articles from HBR’s most influential authors: 1) “Meeting the Challenge of Disruptive...
2014-02-03
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Analyzing your Microsoft Exchange Account Data with Power Query
One of the interesting additions to the Power Query Preview December update is the ability to import data from Microsoft...
2014-02-02
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Hortonworks Makes HDP 2.0 for Windows Server Generally Available
Today, Hortonworks announced the general availability of the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) 2.0 for Windows. This is the next release...
2014-02-02
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Some Great Big Data Sources
What kinds of data are exciting to you? Census and government data? Zombie Data? Marvel Comics? Time and time again...
2014-02-01
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Which C-level executive will be the big data champion? | ITworld
In your environment, who do you see being the Big Data champion? it probably depends on the goals of what...
2013-11-20
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Adam answers your questions on YouTube
Folks,
There are many outlet s to get information on this year’s SQL PASS board of directors candidates. Including :
SQLPASS Election...
2011-12-14
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Cool Windows 8 Blog
For those of you interested in cool new technology, you should definitely check out ?Building Windows 8? which is a...
2011-11-11
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SQL People PASS Board interview is online–Please Comment!
Hey folks,
Welcome back to the PASS election process. The process moves forward with all of us candidates awaiting our ranking...
2011-11-10
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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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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