The ROI of SQLSaturday for PASS & Decreased Event Funding
Returning to the post about Making SQSaturday Sustainable (see also a follow post about addressing concerns) it mentioned two topics...
2016-08-05 (first published: 2016-07-30)
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Blog Posts
Visual Studio Live!–Washington DC–Save with me
I’m going to be speaking this fall at Visual Studio Live, Washington D.C. edition on Oct 3-6. This is my...
2016-08-05
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Easily Shred Event Data
It has been nearly a year since I started an extensive series about Extended Events. Previous to that start, I...
2016-08-04 (first published: 2016-08-01)
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SQL Server 2016 Cumulative Update 1
On July 25th Microsoft released the first cumulative update (#1) for SQL Server 2016. This is a good reason to...
2016-08-04
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T-SQL Tuesday #081: Sharpen Something – Reminder
Sharpen Something
Last week I sent out the invite for the August TSQL Tuesday blog party. In that invite I promised...
2016-08-04 (first published: 2016-08-02)
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Great Value IT Training early August Update
Its that time of the week when get the latest Learning Tree courses that have been available for £750 plus...
2016-08-03
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Minimizing SQL Server DBCC CHECKDB Performance Impacts
Overview
SQL Server is the most popular relational database management system, which is used by many organizations to maintain their data....
2016-08-03
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SQL Server 2016 – Perform Volume Maintenance
One of the server settings that I always enable when configuring a new instance of SQL is database instant file...
2016-08-03
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Undocumented Commands
There isn’t really a need to do what I am doing in this blog post but I guess one reason...
2016-08-03
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Using impersonation to allow a task without granting the required permission.
I use impersonation on a regular basis for a number of different tasks. This one is pretty basic but can...
2016-08-03 (first published: 2016-08-01)
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Blogs
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...
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...
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