Designing for offloaded log backups in AlwaysOn Availability Groups – Part 2 – Monitoring
AlwaysOn Availability Groups have made a big splash in the SQL world and are quickly becoming the HA and DR...
2015-04-13
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Anthony Nocentino Blog
Designing for offloaded log backups in AlwaysOn Availability Groups – Part 2 – Monitoring
AlwaysOn Availability Groups have made a big splash in the SQL world and are quickly becoming the HA and DR technology of choice for many SQL Server environments. Crucial...
2015-04-13
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Moving SQL Server data between filegroups – Part 1 – Database Structures
Why is moving data between filegroups hard?
As a consultant its common to walk into a customer site and find databases...
2015-04-09
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Designing for offloaded log backups in AlwaysOn Availability Groups – Part 1
AlwaysOn Availability Groups made their initial appearance in SQL 2012 and have generated a lot of buzz, HA and DR...
2015-04-06
962 reads
Designing for offloaded log backups in AlwaysOn Availability Groups – Part 1
AlwaysOn Availability Groups made their initial appearance in SQL 2012 and have generated a lot of buzz, HA and DR in one! Even with AGs, still integral to your...
2015-04-06
11 reads
Friend of Redgate 2015
Today I am excited to announce that I have been accepted into the Friends of Redgate program for 2015. The...
2015-03-13
396 reads
Friend of Redgate 2015
Today I am excited to announce that I have been accepted into the Friends of Redgate program for 2015. The program targets influential people in their respective technical communities...
2015-03-13
3 reads
Book Review – SQL Server Internals: In-Memory OLTP
In-Memory OLTP – a potential game changing technology
Every once in a while a technology comes out that has the potential to...
2015-02-24
613 reads
Book Review – SQL Server Internals: In-Memory OLTP
In-Memory OLTP – a potential game changing technology
Every once in a while a technology comes out that has the potential to change things dramatically. In-Memory OLTP (Hekaton) is one...
2015-02-24
9 reads
Book Review – SQL Server Internals: In-Memory OLTP – Detailed Notes
Here are my unedited chapter notes:
Chapter 1Chapter 2Collation – current version requires BIN2 on character index columns. Best to do so...
2015-02-24
760 reads
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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