Speaking at SQLSaturday Baton Rouge!
I’m proud to announce that I will be speaking at SQL Saturday Baton Rouge on August 6th 2016! This will be my forth SQLSaturday event this year and I’m really excited...
2016-07-25
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Blog Posts
SQL Server CTE – Back to Basics
Quick Flashback
Back in late December of 2015, a challenge of sorts was issued by Tim Ford (twitter) to write a...
2016-07-25 (first published: 2016-07-14)
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You Deserve to be an MVP
I have been sitting on this article for a while now. I have been tossing around some
thoughts and finally...
2016-07-25
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You Deserve to be an MVP
When you feel you deserve to be an MVP, are you prepared to do more work? Being an MVP is not just an award - it is a commitment...
2016-07-25
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CISL 1.3.0 is released
I am extremely proud to share with everyone the news that the long-awaited and quite overdue release of the CISL...
2016-07-24
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Descriptive Statistics with SQL and R – II
In the previous post I looked into some very basic and common measures of descriptive statistics – mean, median and mode,...
2016-07-24
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Happy Birthday Power BI
Well today marks the one year anniversary since the initial release of Power BI. We all have watched this product...
2016-07-24
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Happy Birthday Power BI
Today marks the first anniversary of Power BI Desktop and the Power BI Service. The effort to achieve this milestone...
2016-07-24
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Happy Birthday Power BI!
Today marks one years since Power BI was officially released. It’s been an amazing ride and I’d like to thank...
2016-07-24
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I’m speaking at the first ever SQL Saturday San Antonio on 8/13/16!
San Antonio is such a great city with a lot to see and do, such as the Alamo and the...
2016-07-23
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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