"What You Need To Know About Being a DBA and What You Need To Know That You Don’t Know Yet"
Last night was a big success for the first annual Baton Rouge User Groups Networking Night, an all-user-groups invited event...
2014-07-10
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Will Assaf
SQL Saturday Baton Rouge 2014
Since I have been involved with and eventually head of the Baton Rouge SQL Saturday planning committee each year since...
2014-07-10
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Baton Rouge SharePoint Saturday 2014: SQL Server Best Practices for SharePoint Databases
Thanks for joining us at the first annual Baton Rouge SharePoint Saturday!
Here is my presentation for the 1:15 presentation in...
2014-06-21
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Baton Rouge SharePoint Saturday
I'm thrilled to be joining many of my colleagues at Baton Rouge SharePoint Saturday this weekend at the Louisiana Technology...
2014-06-16
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Using a Filtered Index to Enforce Filtered Uniqueness
One of the advantages and uses of Filtered Indexes (introduced with SQL Server 2008) is to provide filtered uniqueness. Obviously...
2014-05-06 (first published: 2014-04-24)
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Real heavyweights: Float vs Decimal, the Thrilla in Precision
This is a followup to a previous post where I likened SQL Server float datatype to Muhammad Ali. Specifically, I...
2014-05-01 (first published: 2014-04-23)
2,953 reads
South Alabama Day of .NET Presentations Downloads
I have been running into longtime SQL Saturday friend Ryan Duclos at SQL Saturday events in Baton Rouge and Pensacola...
2014-03-29
1,193 reads
South Alabama Day of .NET 2014
About 200 miles east of Baton Rouge there lies a beachside town called Mobile, AL that will settle down long...
2014-03-27
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Challenges with Downgrading TFS 2010 from SQL Enterprise to SQL Standard Edition
I recently had the challenge of migrating an installation of Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010 from a shared SQL Server...
2014-02-27 (first published: 2014-02-24)
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Data Architecture Virtual Group - Whiteboard Data Architecture Presentation
Thanks to all 130+ folks who joined, suffered my jokes and handwriting, and asked fantastic questions during my presentation to the...
2014-02-27
1,295 reads
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I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
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Monday Monitor Tips: SQL Auditing Preview
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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