Contracting – Your best clients are your current clients…
and your old clients too.
Before I started my contracting business five years ago I realised the importance of selling and...
2012-06-20
831 reads
Gethyn Ellis
Washington DC in the Summertime
As I mentioned in my post last week I was fortunate enough to visit Washington DC a week or so...
2012-06-18
728 reads
@LearningTree: 2108 SQL Server 2012 Database Administration
This past week my international adventures have continued. As some of you know, for the past couple of years, I...
2012-06-13
1,536 reads
Twitter Handle Change
I have been thinking about this for a while now, but I have decided to change my twitter handle. I...
2012-06-08
729 reads
Ottawa In the Summer Time
I wrote a post earlier this week telling you all about my trip to Ottawa last week, during my trip...
2012-06-01
863 reads
How to Give your .NET application HA
By David Postlethwaite
I was at a meeting the other week when someone mentioned that you could specify two SQL Servers...
2012-05-31
1,741 reads
Learning Tree: SQL Server DBA Skills Upgrade
I’m very lucky in my work as freelance consultant and trainer I get to travel the world, and last week...
2012-05-30
2,130 reads
Books for Learning Transact SQL
I got asked a question recently about what books I would recommend for learning T-SQL. I posted a couple months...
2012-05-29
1,114 reads
The Importance of Regular Blogging
Between my old website, which I started back in 2007 (which has since disappeared) and my blog, which I switched...
2012-05-28
1,030 reads
Looking for a DBA? Looking for a New Job?
Ryan Recruiter meet Dave DBA…
As a contractor and consultant I get to speak to many agents and recruiters and over...
2012-03-14
709 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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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