SQL Saturday #200 - Philadelphia
If you read my post from yesterday you will know I will be spending some time on the US east...
2013-05-08
779 reads
Gethyn Ellis
SQL Server Travels–May 2013
At the end of this month of May, I will be teaching Learning Tree’s 3 day SQL Server Virtualization course...
2013-05-07
780 reads
SQL Server Training in the Summer Time
Its been a long winter so far this weekend has seen the first signs of spring here in South Wales,...
2013-04-22
673 reads
Friday Fun – Football Derbies
This is an off-topic post for a Friday. With Cardiff City reaching the premier league this week and all the...
2013-04-19
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TSQL Tuesday #41–Presenting and Loving it?
Well sort of…it took a while.
I’d done some plays and singing at school but my mother made me practice...
2013-04-09
863 reads
@LearningTree: SQL Server High Availability
Learning Tree are offering their 3 day SQL Server High Availability course this April in London. Running between 17th and...
2013-03-28
1,467 reads
Slide Deck–SQL Saturday Exeter
In my session (An Introduction to SQL Server Virtualisation) at SQL Saturday Exeter I told the attendees that I would...
2013-03-13
858 reads
SQL Saturday Exeter - Review
This last weekend I attended my first SQL Server Saturday event. The event was held in The Jury’s Inn in...
2013-03-11
834 reads
SQL Saturday - Exeter
This time tomorrow morning I will be on my feet starting to deliver a 50 minute session at SQL Saturday...
2013-03-08
879 reads
SQL Saturday Exeter - I'm speaking
Just short post for a Friday. This Saturday (tomorrow) I will be speaking at SQL Saturday 194 which is being...
2013-03-08
711 reads
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...
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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)See possible answers