Mala Mahadevan

My name is Malathi, a.k.a Mala - I am a DBA turned BI/Data Science person, working with SQL Server since 6.5. I am also founder of the Louisville SQL Server user group, organizer of 8 SQL Saturdays, Regional mentor for northeast, and 14-year PASS conference attendee. In my spare time I love to garden, travel, read, paint, and do yoga.

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Switch partition: NULL boundary id

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Encoding NULL

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Encoding NULL

What is returned from this code in SQL Server 2025? 

SELECT BASE64_ENCODE(NULL)

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