Develop a High Availability/Disaster Recovery Strategy
Develop a High Availability/Disaster Recovery Strategy – Protecting your company’s most valuable asset and keeping that asset available is a very...
2012-11-16
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Gethyn Ellis
SQL Server Version Upgrade
SQL Server Version Upgrade - You have SQL Server running nicely with no issues or problems. The trouble is its SQL...
2012-11-15
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SQL Server Virtualisation
SQL Server Virtualisation - Lots of companies and organisations are adopting a virtualisation first approach to the installation of new servers...
2012-11-14
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Enable Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012
Configuring Hyper-V on a Windows Server 2012 is really simple and straight forward. Its a very similar process on Windows...
2012-11-13 (first published: 2012-11-09)
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Site Update – Performance Tuning
Here at gethynellis.com we offer a range of consulting services to help you manage and maintain your SQL Server environment,...
2012-11-13
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Site Update–SQL Server Health Check
Here at gethynellis.com we offer a range of consulting services to help you manage and maintain your SQL Server environment,...
2012-11-12
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Deal of the Week
Occasionally I come across offers and deals that may be of interest to some of my readers. When I come...
2012-11-11
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Configure Hyper-V on VMware Workstation VM
When working with new technology, if you are like me you might like to setup virtual machines to learn the...
2012-11-08
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GRE Solutions sponsors the Darts
This post is very much off topic so apologies if you were expecting a technology related post.
Tonight a darts exhibition...
2012-11-08
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Restarting and Shutting Down a Windows 2012 Server
I have been exploring Windows 2012 over the past week or so. Things look a little different to previous versions...
2012-11-07
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Blogs
SQL Server 2025 CU1 Fixes the Docker Desktop AVX Issue on macOS
Microsoft fixed the AVX instruction issue in SQL Server 2025 CU1. The container now...
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 ...
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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