Dallas, TX Fallen Officers Relief Fund
If you want to make a Donation to the Dallas, TX Fallen Officers Relief Fund, Please click this Link.
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2016-07-08
391 reads
the game
So things are messed up. Bad. I mean, you lost a $2.7 Billion Dollar Secret Blimp or your team accidentally sent...
2015-10-30
1,075 reads
When Emotional Intelligence Trumps Math
I have been in Corporate IT long enough to know that when a bad decision is made, you move out...
2015-07-28
467 reads
new LinkedIn article
Hi everyone,
I just published a new LinkedIn article entitled “Let It Go”. Please check it out!
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/let-go-chuck-boyce
2015-01-25
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2014-11-11
491 reads
Vote for Grant Fritchey
Just a brief note to say that I will be voting for Grant Fritchey for the PASS Board and I...
2014-09-23
1,119 reads
Happy Birthday, America!
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events,...
2014-07-04
643 reads
2014-05-26
482 reads
SQL Server is not a toy
I began my career working with Sybase on UNIX. Everything was done via the shell. There were strong practices in...
2014-05-08
791 reads
this isn’t thunderdome
When I received my first MVP award for SQL Server it was fairly abstract to me until I went to...
2014-04-09
730 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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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