Dharmendra Keshari

Dharmendra is a SQL Server/Microsoft Data Platform professional with over eight years of experience. He enjoys helping others in the SQL Server community and does this by contributing on blogs, speaking at several SQL events. His passion and focus is to explore and share more and more on SQL Server.

SQL Replication SubscriptionStreams setting

by Dharmendra Keshari

SQL Geek

In this blog, we will talk about improving distribution agent throughput by modifying the profile parameter – “SubscriptionStreams”. I will be...

2017-10-23 (first published: 2017-10-14)

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Extracting Deadlock information using SYSTEM_HEALTH Extended Events

by Dharmendra Keshari

SQL Geek

Extended Events is a powerful feature that was introduced into SQL Server 2008 and onwards. It keeps historical system health...

2017-10-12 (first published: 2017-10-07)

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What Immediate_sync means in Transactional Replication – Part1

by Dharmendra Keshari

SQL Geek

In my previous two blogs – Capture Important Parameters of the SQL Server Replication and Add new articles to existing Transactional Replication...

2017-07-31 (first published: 2017-07-18)

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SQL Server 2017 – DMV – sys.dm_os_host_info

by Dharmendra Keshari

SQL Geek

I always love to get my hands dirty with new features of SQL Server. I was exploring SQL Server on...

2017-07-27 (first published: 2017-07-14)

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Connect SQL Server on Linux using Bash on Ubuntu on Windows

by Dharmendra Keshari

SQL Geek

Since Microsoft has launched SQL Server on Linux, you would be working on both the platforms Linux and Windows. You...

2017-07-21

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Add new articles to existing Transactional Replication without initializing old articles

by Dharmendra Keshari

SQL Geek

Suppose, you have Transactional Replication configured in your production environment. There is a business requirement to add a new article to the...

2017-07-20 (first published: 2017-07-10)

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Capture Important Parameters of the SQL Server Replication

by Dharmendra Keshari

SQL Geek

Whenever there is a business requirement to add a new article to an existing publication, you want to know how...

2017-07-13 (first published: 2017-07-03)

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SQL Server Database Files Wise I/O Latency Details PART#1

by Dharmendra Keshari

SQL Geek

One of the real-world I/O troubleshooting problems is – If you have your databases spread across multiple LUNs and you want...

2017-07-03 (first published: 2017-06-26)

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SQL SERVER DATABASE FILES WISE I/O LATENCY PART#2

by Dharmendra Keshari

SQL Geek

Since the DMF sys.dm_io_virtual_file_stats shows cumulative I/O statistics value for the database files, you can’t just use the DMF to...

2017-06-29

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How the Initial VLF sequence number gets decided of the default transaction log file

by Dharmendra Keshari

SQL Geek

In last three years, I presented two times on the topic Transaction Log File Architecture. During the sessions, when I discussed...

2017-06-28 (first published: 2017-06-20)

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Blogs

Advice I Like: Ranch Rules

Leave a gate behind you the way you first found it. – from Excellent...

Fix Slow, Bloated MSDB: Purge Old History And Add Missing Indexes

Fix Slow, Bloated MSDB: Purge Old History And Add Missing Indexes ...

Three Ways to Use Snowflake Data in Microsoft Fabric

Organizations increasingly want Snowflake and Microsoft Fabric to coexist without duplicating data or fragmenting...

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25 Years of SQL Server Central

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The Decoded Value

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Deploying SQL Server Developer Edition in Kubernetes: A Cost-Effective Alternative to RDS

By Sujai Krishna

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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)

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