What’s the difference between LEFT and RIGHT OUTER JOINs?
A DBA walked into a bar, saw a couple of tables, and asked “Can I JOIN you?”
There are several different...
2016-08-03
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Blog Posts
DacFxed - Powershell Nugetized DacFx wrapper
Deploying a dacpac from powershell should be pretty easy, there is a .net api which you can use to open a dacpac, compare to a database and either create...
2016-08-02
DacFxed - Powershell Nugetized DacFx wrapper
Deploying a dacpac from powershell should be pretty easy, there is a .net api which you can use to open...
2016-08-02
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DacFxed - Powershell Nugetized DacFx wrapper
Deploying a dacpac from powershell should be pretty easy, there is a .net api which you can use to open...
2016-08-02
43 reads
DacFxed - Powershell Nugetized DacFx wrapper
Deploying a dacpac from powershell should be pretty easy, there is a .net api which you can use to open...
2016-08-02
43 reads
DacFxed - Powershell Nugetized DacFx wrapper
Deploying a dacpac from powershell should be pretty easy, there is a .net api which you can use to open...
2016-08-02
877 reads
Did My Dev Changes Get to Production?
One of the things that people don’t think about often is whether the changes made in development actually get to...
2016-08-02
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Implementing Fuzzy Sets in SQL Server, Part 2: Measuring Imprecision with Fuzzy Complements
By Steve Bolton
…………Taking the dive into fuzzy sets immediately elicits the obvious question: just how fuzzy is the data we’re...
2016-08-02
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Migrating SQL Server to Azure
There are many ways to migrate an “earthed” SQL Server database to Azure, for this article I want to show...
2016-08-02
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More on Strengthfinders
This past week I attended a one hour facilitated group session that was a continuation of the Strengthfinders assessment. One...
2016-08-02
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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...
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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