Backing Up Your Old Systems
I am currently on a project to review some older servers (SQL 2000 and 2005) for SIMPLE recovery (and therefore...
2012-02-16
407 reads
Nebraska SQL from @DBA_ANDY
Meme 15 - LinkedIn
The #Meme15 assignment from Jason Strate (Blog/@StrateSQL) for February is to describe how and why we use LinkedIn. I felt...
2012-02-15
395 reads
SQLRockstar's SQL Someday
http://vimeo.com/33411604
This is a talk given by Thomas LaRock (@SQLRockstar to you Twitter-folk) at an event last fall in NYC called...
2012-02-15
380 reads
Meme Monday - What I Want for Christmas from Microsoft
This Christmas if I could get one thing from Microsoft it would be recognition that DBA's are not developers. This...
2011-12-05
745 reads
Going to PASS 2012!
As I have previously written about in this space, I have recently moved to House of Brick Technologies. Part of...
2011-11-15
378 reads
The Industry Problem according to @Way0utWest
Steve Jones (blog/@way0utwest) from SQLServerCentral posted his daily editorial today titled "The Industry Problem" in which he describes an article he...
2011-11-14
1,020 reads
Why is -fill in the feature- Enterprise-Only?
Steve Jones (Blog/@Way0utWest) recently wrote a great blog post proposing that Microsoft should go from having edition-only features (most of...
2011-10-21
435 reads
Moving to House of Brick
Starting Halloween Monday I will be a Technical Consultant for House of Brick Technologies.
To everyone out there saying "Didn't you...
2011-10-19
525 reads
Blogs
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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Databricks Data Intelligence Platform: Unlocking the GenAI Revolution
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Storytelling with Data: Let's Practice!
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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