NJ SQL UG Event: SQL Server 2008 Database mirroring - MAK
May 17th NJSQL UG Meeting - SQL Server 2008 Database mirroring with MAK
Date: Tuesday, May 17th
Topic: SQL Server 2008...
2011-05-17
885 reads
Robert Pearl
SQL Server News, Upcoming Local Events & Webinars.........
Wow! It's only Tuesday, and there's so much going on in the SQL Server World! I wanted to share some...
2011-05-17
664 reads
TSQL Tuesday #18 - Using CTE to Analyze Disk IO
(TSQL Tuesday on Wednesday! - Apologies for the late entry - better late than never)
Today’s topic is CTE’s.Scientifically speaking, solids mostly expand...
2011-05-11
2,007 reads
More SQL Server 2008 Installation Issues
Robert Pearl brings us a few more potential SQL Server 2008 installation issues on Windows 7 and a few workarounds that might help you get around them.
2011-05-05
5,547 reads
SQL Server 2008 Installation Issues - Issues and Workarounds
MVP Robert Pearl explains how to get around some common issues that might occur when installing SQL Server 2008 on Windows 7.
2011-04-28
7,382 reads
Another neat idea - The Mentoring Experiment
Another neat idea from the co-founders of SQLServerCentral.com, Steve Jones and Andy Warren, the mentoring experiment has been launched, and...
2011-04-22
1,810 reads
T-SQL Tuesday - Using APPLY to find out which queries are running on which CPU...
When I saw that Matt Velic's is hosting T-SQL Tuesday, and he has invited the SQL commmunity to participate, I was very...
2011-04-12
2,916 reads
SQL Validation Functions - 4 Cool UDF's to have handy
Everyone knows that in SQL 2000, yes 2000, Microsoft jumped aboard the bandwagon of other platforms, and gave the developers...
2011-04-07
12,319 reads
SQL Validation Functions - 4 Cool UDF's to have handy
Everyone knows that in SQL 2000, yes 2000, Microsoft jumped aboard the bandwagon of other platforms, and gave the developers...
2011-04-05
40,733 reads
Meme Monday - what the heck? - OK I'll bite!
Thomas "Tommy Boy SQLRockStar" LaRock proposed a Meme Monday and challenged us to write a SQL Server related story in eleven words...
2011-04-04
890 reads
Blogs
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Don’t Miss Out – SQL Server Query Tuning Fundamentals Starts Next Monday!
Next Monday, February 9, 2026, my one-day live online training SQL Server Query Tuning...
Monday Monitor Tips: SQL Auditing Preview
By Steve Jones
One of the features we advocates have been advocating for is a better way...
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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