Meet Thomas Kejser in Aarhus
This is normally not a place where we advertise for events held by our friends, but today I’ll make an...
2012-09-06
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SQL Rally 2012 Nordic
The Nordic SQL Server event of the year is getting closer and closer. YES it is SQL Rally Nordic that...
2012-06-26
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DBCC CHECKDB
Quite often when I see a new SQL Server setup, a CHECKDB has never been run on the databases. It’s...
2012-05-31 (first published: 2012-05-29)
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Backup compression using IBM TDP for SQL Server
If you are using SQL Server 2008 enterprise/datacenter edition, or SQL Server 2008 R2 standard or above, you are in...
2012-05-15
1,994 reads
Troubleshooting Database mail
Last week we blogged about “How to configure Database mail” – this week we’ll have a closer look at what to...
2012-05-08
9,815 reads
Automatic page repair with SQL Server Mirroring
Now and then my colleagues and I find our selves in the middle of a discussion about SQL Server Mirroring...
2012-05-01 (first published: 2012-04-24)
3,200 reads
How to Configure Database mail
In my daily job as a SQL Server consultant I go to a lot of places, many days on the...
2012-05-01
8,417 reads
Visualize Wait stats with Microsoft Excel
In our blog post last week: Instance Wide Wait Stats we promised to show You how to visualize the collected...
2012-04-18
1,179 reads
Instance Wide Wait Stats
Over the last many weeks we have written quite a few blog post about query debugging, using Extended Events, Blocking...
2012-04-11 (first published: 2012-04-09)
2,475 reads
Nifty queries using a Numbers helper table
(The complete usable code is in the very bottom of this blog post)
Some of you may have seen this “numbers...
2012-04-09 (first published: 2012-04-04)
4,633 reads
Blogs
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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!
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Monday Monitor Tips: SQL Auditing Preview
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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