SQL MCM Training – Day 2
Today's day was Jonathan Kehayias days, and it was pretty impressive. Jonathan covered
the following 3 modules, and he can speak...
2011-08-10
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Klaus Aschenbrenner
SQL MCM Training – Day 1
Today was my first day of SQL MCM training here in Bellevue. We started at 08:30am
and now (05:30pm) Kimberly is...
2011-08-09
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SQL MCM Training – Day 0
For the next 3 weeks I'm in Bellevue/WA for the SQL MCM training provided by Paul
Randal, Kimberly Tripp, and Bob...
2011-08-08
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My SQLbits sessions
Since today its official, I'm presenting 2 sessions at the SQLbits conference in Liverpool
(http://www.sqlbits.com) from September 30 –
October 1. Here...
2011-08-03
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My upcoming speaking engagements
A few days ago I had an interesting conversation on Twitter about my upcoming speaking
engagements. I really realized at this...
2011-07-26
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How my SQL Server trainings helped Hannes and his company to improve their SQL Server based software
In the last months I have done a lot of SQL Server consulting engagements where I
have seen the craziest performance...
2011-07-05
822 reads
The mystery of the NULL bitmap mask
In today's weblog post I want to talk about the NULL bitmap mask and some mysteries
that you can encounter with...
2011-06-29
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Replaying workloads with the RML Utilities
In today's weblog posting I want to talk about replaying SQL Server workloads with
the RML Utilities. RML Utilities stands for...
2011-06-21
4,176 reads
My SQLPASS session
Yesterday we got confirmation from SQLPASS if our submitted sessions for the upcoming SQLPASSS
summit in Seattle (October 11 – 14) were...
2011-06-16
707 reads
SQLcruise review
The most amazing journey that I have done in the past years was definitely SQLcruise
(see http://www.sqlcruise.com) – a SQL Server
event organized...
2011-06-12
557 reads
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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