Heap Tables
In today’s blog posting I want to talk about Heap Tables in SQL Server. Heap tables are tables without a Clustered Index. A table in SQL Server can have...
2022-03-01
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Klaus Aschenbrenner
Data Page Restrictions
Today I’m talking about limitations that you have with data pages, and why there are restrictions that you will love, while you will hate other restrictions. As you learned,...
2022-03-07 (first published: 2022-02-21)
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Extent Management in SQL Server
Today I’m talking about Extent Management in SQL Server, because this is a very important topic, especially when you deal with TempDb in SQL Server. On a very high...
2022-02-28 (first published: 2022-02-14)
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Creating a distributed Service Broker application with Docker
As you might know, I have written a long time ago a book about Service Broker – a technology within SQL Server that almost nobody is aware of and...
2022-02-21 (first published: 2022-02-07)
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Data Pages – the Foundation of SQL Server
Last week we laid out the foundation for how SQL Server executes queries. I have also already talked here a little bit about pages that are buffers of 8kb....
2022-02-11 (first published: 2022-01-31)
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How SQL Server executes a Query
Beginning with today, I want to give you over the next few months a blog post series about the basics of performance tuning in SQL Server. Before we go...
2022-02-04 (first published: 2022-01-25)
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My new Online Training: SQL Server Query Tuning Fundamentals – German Edition
As we all know there is already a lot of information available about SQL Server related topics in English. But I’m also dealing more and more with customers who...
2021-10-18
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My new Online Training: SQL Server Query Tuning Fundamentals – German Edition
As we all know there is already a lot of information available about SQL Server related topics in English. But I’m also dealing more and more with customers who...
2021-10-18
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My new Online Training: SQL Server Query Tuning Fundamentals – German Edition
As we all know there is already a lot of information available about SQL Server related topics in English. But I’m also dealing more and more with customers who...
2021-10-18
9 reads
My new Online Training: SQL Server Query Tuning Fundamentals – German Edition
As we all know there is already a lot of information available about SQL Server related topics in English. But I’m also dealing more and more with customers who...
2021-10-18
16 reads
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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...
SQL Server 2025 CU1 Fixes the Docker Desktop AVX Issue on macOS
Microsoft fixed the AVX instruction issue in SQL Server 2025 CU1. The container now...
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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