Replication Latency
I've used Replication a lot over the years and contrary to the opinions of most DBA’s I know, I think it...
2013-01-25
2,004 reads
SQL Server 365
SQL Server 365 - Fantastic First Year In Numbers
So, tomorrow marks one year since I started blogging here on SQL Server 365 and what a year it has...
2012-12-31
1,379 reads
Active Directory Group Membership and Powershell
I’ve done my fair share of work with Active Directory over the years and LDAP has helped immensely, it did...
2012-12-19
832 reads
Tables without a Primary Key
As well as creating the script for yesterday’s post on finding Tables without a Clustered Index I tweaked the script...
2012-12-06 (first published: 2012-11-30)
5,210 reads
Tables without a Clustered Index
Yesterday while adding some new logic to an existing process I noticed an unacceptable level of performance degradation with the...
2012-11-29
1,535 reads
Unused Indexes
A sound indexing strategy is paramount to performance in an OLTP system. Not having the correct indexes in place can...
2012-11-27
2,545 reads
Database Mirroring Performance Counters
This week’s SQL Skills insider email contains a simple but often too true scenario regarding database mirroring. If you haven’t...
2012-11-21 (first published: 2012-11-14)
2,720 reads
Database Mirroring Error
I have been setting up multi instance database mirroring for the last couple of days along with some other DR...
2012-10-26
636 reads
Create Database Script
I always try to enforce standards across all the SQL Servers I manage, it makes tons of administrative tasks much...
2012-09-21
1,103 reads
tablediff Utility
I recently stumbled across a little gem of a utility called tablediff. I have been working a lot with replication...
2012-09-20
6,690 reads
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
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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25 Years of SQL Server Central
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The Decoded Value
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Deploying SQL Server Developer Edition in Kubernetes: A Cost-Effective Alternative to RDS
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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