Hide the Ribbon in Power View
There may come a day when you want to embed a Power View report into a PerformancePoint dashboard or a...
2013-06-07
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Bradley Schacht
SharePoint 2010 on SQL 2012 Configuration Failed
Recently while doing an installation of SharePoint 2010 on a Windows Server 2008 R2 server with a SQL Server 2012...
2013-05-29
1,183 reads
Creating a SharePoint 2013 Demo Environment – Part 1: Setting Up A Domain Controller
Development and demo environments can be hard to come by. Over the course of this series you will learn how...
2013-05-21
2,285 reads
Browse SharePoint in Windows Explorer
Have you ever wanted to browse your SharePoint 2010 site in Windows Explorer? If you are in SharePoint 2007 please...
2013-05-14
882 reads
SQL Saturday Jacksonville 2013 Wrap-up
It was another great year at SQL Saturday Jacksonville. For the last several years I have been lucky enough to...
2013-05-07
476 reads
Why I’m Considering a Surface and Windows Phone 8
Anyone who knows me will see the title of this post and tell you I’m about to trash the Surface,...
2013-03-22
672 reads
SSIS 2012 Deadlock When Running SSIS from SQL Agent Job
I recently had an interesting situation where an SSIS package was scheduled to run at 1 AM but failed with...
2013-03-18 (first published: 2013-03-12)
5,056 reads
Remove Local Administrators SSAS Admin Access
Recently while changing some production security around on a new server I needed to modify the SQL Server Analysis Services...
2013-03-05
1,233 reads
Find Skew in Distributed Tables
The SQL Server PDW (Parallel Data Warehouse) is a beast of a machine. Spreading workload across multiple nodes inside the...
2012-09-11
1,514 reads
Cisco VPN Client 5 on Windows 8
NOTE: Always create a backup before doing any type of Windows registry modifications!!!!
With the full public release of Windows 8...
2012-09-04
1,466 reads
Blogs
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I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
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Monday Monitor Tips: SQL Auditing Preview
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One of the features we advocates have been advocating for is a better way...
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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