Twitter, John, Building a Blog and #MEME15
I saw an interesting post this morning care of the micro-blogging/social networking site twitter that really got me thinking about...
2012-01-15
1,465 reads
Gethyn Ellis
How safe are your secrets?
We’ve all have service accounts, application accounts, sysadmin and domain admin accounts and other privileged shared accounts on our systems....
2012-01-10
636 reads
Morning Checks - Forewarned is forearmed
It’s always handy to know if there any problems with your servers before you get into work in the morning....
2012-01-09
655 reads
Are you allowed to use social networking at Work?
I was reading this article about internet usage by staff who work for local authorities in Wales http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-16394916 The content...
2012-01-06
949 reads
2012: SQL Server, Olympics, Football and Darts
Today is the first day of 2012 and some commentators and bloggers in the SQL Server blog space use this...
2012-01-01
1,081 reads
Happy New Year
Image: ponsuwan / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
As 2011 draws to a close and as people look forward to evening of partying and celebrating I’d...
2011-12-31
1,952 reads
Contracting is business not employment: Read the small print
This post is about a contracting in UK. Some of terms mentioned here will not mean a great deal to...
2011-12-19
1,193 reads
Execute Permissions
Written by Ian Treasure
Gethyn posted on the use of execute permissions a while ago (db_executor at http://www.gethynellis.com/2010/04/dbexecutor-role.html). Briefly, this approach...
2011-12-15
1,378 reads
Contracting, SQL Server and gethynellis.com
A while back I started posting some contractor related articles.The articles were mainly for the those people that wanted to...
2011-12-14
596 reads
Destroying a Windows Cluster
I haven’t posted for a while but thought I’d dust off the blog and get a post out. I have...
2011-11-24
5,022 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...
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