Upgrading to SQL Server 2012?
Do you have any plans in place to upgrade to SQL Sever 2012 this year. We are now well into...
2013-03-06
1,053 reads
Gethyn Ellis
Virtualising your SQL Server?
Having just completed the latest revision of Learning Tree's SQL Server Virtualisation and consolidation course I thought I'd share with...
2013-03-04
662 reads
SELECT TOP 5 PERCENT WITH TIES
LinkedIn sent me an email on Monday that said my profile was in the top 5% of viewed profiles in...
2013-02-12
862 reads
SQL Server Auto grow
I had a great response to my blog post and poll last week about how DBAs use auto grow. In...
2013-01-16
1,026 reads
SQL Server Consulting: Weekly Round-up
The first full week in 2013 has been a a busy week for me with lots of SQL Server consulting...
2013-01-12
1,001 reads
#SQLSaturdayExeter–Superb SQL Server Event
#SQLSaturday194 is coming to Exeter on the 8th – 9th March.
What is SQL Saturday? The brain child of Steve Jones,...
2013-01-11
760 reads
Auto grow–On or Off Straw Poll
David Postlethwaite who contributes to this blog regularly sent me an email this morning asking about Database Auto grow.
This...
2013-01-10 (first published: 2013-01-07)
1,994 reads
SQL Server Virtualisation and Consolidation
Come and join me in London this March for a 3 day course on SQL Server virtualisation and consolidation.The course...
2013-01-10
1,025 reads
SQL Server Contracting and Business Network Wales - LinkedIn Groups Updates
I have been doing some work on some LinkedIn groups that I manage and look after over the holidays. There...
2013-01-04
866 reads
SQL Saturday #194 Exeter
I have read much about SQL Saturday’s but I have yet to attend one, that is about to change. I...
2013-01-03
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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