A New Road Ahead…
Where I’ve Been Since January 1, 2012 I’ve been the principal consultant at Centino Systems. Jokingly, I refer to myself as The Centino of Systems. I learned a lot...
2021-05-22
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Anthony Nocentino Blog
A New Road Ahead…
Where I’ve Been Since January 1, 2012 I’ve been the principal consultant at Centino Systems. Jokingly, I refer to myself as The Centino of Systems. I learned a lot...
2021-05-22
2 reads
Testing for Specific Versions of TLS Protocols Using curl
Ever need to set your web server a specific protocol version of TLS for web servers and need a quick way to test that out to confirm? Let’s check...
2021-06-02 (first published: 2021-05-20)
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Testing for Specific Versions of TLS Protocols Using curl
Ever need to set your web server a specific protocol version of TLS for web servers and need a quick way to test that out to confirm? Let’s check...
2021-05-20
191 reads
Updated Pluralsight Course – Managing the Kubernetes API Server and Pods
My updated course “Managing the Kubernetes API Server and Pods” in now available on Pluralsight here! If you want to learn about the course, check out the trailer here or if you want to...
2021-05-11
93 reads
Updated Pluralsight Course – Managing the Kubernetes API Server and Pods
My updated course “Managing the Kubernetes API Server and Pods” in now available on Pluralsight here! If you want to learn about the course, check out the trailer here or if you want to...
2021-05-11
3 reads
Updated Pluralsight Course – Kubernetes Installation and Configuration Fundamentals
My updated course “Kubernetes Installation and Configuration Fundamentals” in now available on Pluralsight here! If you want to learn about the course, check out the trailer here or if you want to dive right...
2021-03-08 (first published: 2021-03-01)
177 reads
Updated Pluralsight Course – Kubernetes Installation and Configuration Fundamentals
My updated course “Kubernetes Installation and Configuration Fundamentals” in now available on Pluralsight here! If you want to learn about the course, check out the trailer here or if you want to dive right...
2021-03-01
49 reads
Installing and Configuring containerd as a Kubernetes Container Runtime
In this post, I’m going to show you how to install containerd as the container runtime in a Kubernetes cluster. I will also cover setting the cgroup driver for...
2021-02-22 (first published: 2021-02-14)
420 reads
Installing and Configuring containerd as a Kubernetes Container Runtime
In this post, I’m going to show you how to install containerd as the container runtime in a Kubernetes cluster. I will also cover setting the cgroup driver for...
2021-02-14
4 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