Followup for the Kansas City SQL Server User Group
I had a great time speaking at the Kansas City SQL Server User Group on Thursday, February 18th. The more I present my Backup Basics with PowerShell and dbatools...
2021-02-20
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Speaking at the Kansas City SQL Server User Group
I will be presenting my session “Backup Basics with PowerShell and dbatools” this Thursday, February 18th at 2:30 PM Central Time at the Kansas City SQL Server User Group....
2021-02-15
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Upgrading Ola Hallengren’s Maintenance Solution with dbatools
While presenting Backup Basics with Powershell and dbatools at ONDT, I mentioned a caveat with the -ReplaceExisting switch for Install-DbaMaintenanceSolution. This switch drops all of the objects installed by...
2021-01-25
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Upgrading Ola Hallengren's Maintenance Solution with dbatools
While presenting Backup Basics with Powershell and dbatools at ONDT, I mentioned a caveat with the -ReplaceExisting switch for Install-DbaMaintenanceSolution. This switch drops all of the objects installed by...
2021-01-25
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A Non-Technical Reason to Not Use SELECT *
I got a merge a while back that included a change I wasn’t expecting from one of my developers. All they were doing was renaming a column on a...
2021-01-19
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A Non-Technical Reason to Not Use SELECT *
I got a merge a while back that included a change I wasn’t expecting from one of my developers. All they were doing was renaming a column on a...
2021-01-19
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T-SQL Tuesday #133 - Taking a Break
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community blogger each month, and this month James McGillivray (blog | twitter) asks us about our views on...
2021-01-13
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Slides & Demos for Backup Basics with PowerShell & dbatools
I had the honor of presenting a new session, Backup Basics with Powershell and dbatools, at the first Ohio North Database Training meeting this evening. Thank you to the...
2021-01-06
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Slides & Demos for Backup Basics with PowerShell & dbatools
I had the honor of presenting a new session, Backup Basics with Powershell and dbatools, at the first Ohio North Database Training meeting this evening. Thank you to the...
2021-01-06
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2020 Year in Review
Yeah, so…that was a hell of a year, wasn’t it?
Short-Form Reviews of Year 2020 Reviewer #1: 👎
Reviewer #2: ★✩✩✩✩, would not recommend
Best Laid Plans… The year started out really...
2021-01-04
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Blogs
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
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...
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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