Chance to win a free seat in my Performance Troubleshooting Workshop in London!
As you might know, I'm running my "Advanced SQL Server Performance Troubleshooting
Workshop" from September 12 – 14 in Central London. You...
2011-08-21
965 reads
Klaus Aschenbrenner
SQLMCM Training – Day 11
Today Jonathan presented on Replication and Paul about Database Snapshots, and his
baby called "CHECKDB" – he has been married with CHECKDB...
2011-08-19
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SQLMCM Training – Day 10
Today Paul was speaking about Database Mirroring and Jonathan was talking about Failover
Clustering – all in all a very intensive day...
2011-08-18
614 reads
SQL MCM Training – Day 9
Today Jonathan was talking the whole day about Consolidation and Virtualization. There
were again a lot of new concepts, and new...
2011-08-17
956 reads
SQL MCM Training – Day 8
Today Paul talked the whole day about HA DR Strategies and Backup/Restore operations.
I've already known a lot about Backup/Restores, but...
2011-08-16
737 reads
MCM Training – Day 6 & 7
My whole weekend was dedicated to MCM studying, and I've reviewed a lot of stuff that
we have learned through the...
2011-08-15
545 reads
SQL MCM Training – Day 5
Today I've not taken too much notes, because the whole afternoon was about the Management
Data Warehouse and Multi-Instance Management. But...
2011-08-13
1,376 reads
Service Broker sample application from SQLskills Immersion Event
You can find my Service Broker sample application which I presented during the SQLskills
Immersion Event in Bellevue here for download:...
2011-08-12
1,289 reads
SQL MCM Training – Day 4
Today Jonathan has presented on analyzing trace data, and Kimberly has spoken on troubleshooting
Plan Cache Issues and Index Consolidation. It's...
2011-08-12
535 reads
SQL MCM Training – Day 3
Nothing to say about today, Jonathan did really a great job describing Extended Events
and Baselining/Benchmarking to us, and his boss...
2011-08-11
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Blogs
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
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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