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Encoding Strings

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Question of the Day

Encoding Strings

I have this code in SQL Server 2025. What is the result? 

DECLARE @message VARCHAR(50) = 'Hello SQL Server 2025!';
DECLARE @encoded VARCHAR(MAX);

SET @encoded = BASE64_ENCODE(@message);
SELECT @encoded AS EncodedResult;

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