Finding Top Offenders with Extended Events
This week at MVP Summit I got to talk with a friend who loves profiler. We were talking about capturing...
2018-03-06
286 reads
John Sterrett
Finding Top Offenders with Extended Events
This week at MVP Summit I got to talk with a friend who loves profiler. We were talking about capturing workloads and doing analysis on them. T-SQL or other...
2018-03-06
4 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #096: The Group Who Changed My Career Forever!
T-SQL Tuesday #96: Folks Who Have Made A Difference
Today’s blog post is about T-SQL Tuesday. If you haven’t seen T-SQL...
2017-11-14
957 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #096: The Group Who Changed My Career Forever!
Today’s blog post is about T-SQL Tuesday. If you haven’t seen T-SQL Tuesday before its a great monthly call for all SQL Server bloggers to write about one topic...
2017-11-14
6 reads
SQL Server 2017: Making Backups Great Again!
In some DBA circles, backups are just as popular as politicians! However, recoverability is the most important task for database...
2017-11-10 (first published: 2017-10-31)
2,591 reads
SQL Server 2017: Making Backups Great Again!
In some DBA circles, backups are just as popular as politicians! However, recoverability is the most important task for database administrators. While SQL Server 2017 added so many great...
2017-10-31
55 reads
Talking about Migrating to Azure SQL Database at #MSIgnite this week
Speaking on Migrating to Azure SQL Database at Ignite 2017
This week I will have two talks on migrating existing database...
2017-09-25
367 reads
Talking about Migrating to Azure SQL Database at #MSIgnite this week
This week I will have two talks on migrating existing database to Azure SQL Databases at Microsoft Ignite. If you are there and curious about migrating your existing databases...
2017-09-25
4 reads
Blue Screen Your SQL Server On-Demand
These days I do a lot of testing with SQL Server. When I am testing new features or helping clients...
2017-03-10
648 reads
Blue Screen Your SQL Server On-Demand
These days I do a lot of testing with SQL Server. When I am testing new features or helping clients implement SQL Server High Availability solutions I want to...
2017-03-10
34 reads
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PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
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...
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SSRS shared dataset parameters not showing in expression builder
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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