Can’t RDP to Azure VM?
I ran into an interesting problem early this month. I was spinning up an Azure VM with SQL Server 2016...
2016-04-18
555 reads
Gethyn Ellis
2016-04-15
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Weekly Roundup–SQL Server and Related News
Happy Tuesday . Here's the latest technology based blogs and articles I have been reading this week. Mainly SQL Server themed...
2016-04-12
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SQL Server 2005 is Now Out of Support (12 April 2016)
SQL Server 2005 is now out of support. I remember going to a SQL Server 2005 launch event at the...
2016-04-11
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TSQL– Search for Strings in Object Definitions
I have been working nn an environment that had multiple copies of a database on the same SQL server instance....
2016-04-06
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Weekly Roundup–SQL Server and Related News
Welcome to this weeks weekly round up of links, SQL Server and other news. Its been a busy week on...
2016-04-05
405 reads
SQL Server 2016 Azure Virtual Machines
With the release candidates coming thick and fast for SQL Server 2016 downloading, uninstalling the previous version and installing the...
2016-03-30
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SQL Server News–29th March 2016
This past weekend is one of my favourite holiday weekends - the 4 day Easter weekend 🙂 Although I have had to...
2016-03-29
610 reads
SQLBITS 2016 Agenda has been Published
The agenda for this year’s SQLBITs has been published you can find it here http://sqlbits.com/information/event15/Agenda.aspx?20160507
Our very own David Postlethwaite has...
2016-03-24
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Weekly Round-up 21st March 2016
Here are some of the more interesting links that I have found this week
SQL Server
SQL Server 2016 RC1 has...
2016-03-21
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Blogs
Advice I Like: Ranch Rules
By Steve Jones
Leave a gate behind you the way you first found it. – from Excellent...
Fix Slow, Bloated MSDB: Purge Old History And Add Missing Indexes
By SQLPals
Fix Slow, Bloated MSDB: Purge Old History And Add Missing Indexes ...
Three Ways to Use Snowflake Data in Microsoft Fabric
By James Serra
Organizations increasingly want Snowflake and Microsoft Fabric to coexist without duplicating data or fragmenting...
Forums
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
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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