Managing Report Project Deployments & Version Control
What lessons have we learned about managing report projects and what are the best
practices?
Since each report is stored in a...
2010-03-11
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SQL Server BI Blog
MDX Datasets with Date Parameters
How should date type parameters be prompted? There are two common approaches
depending on how you want the parameter to appear. ...
2010-03-11
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Self-Service Reporting Best Practices on the Microsoft BI Platform
Article from the Architecture Journal ? 12-15-2009
by Paul Turley
Once upon a time, there was a big company whose IT department
wanted...
2010-03-11
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Blogs
Don’t Miss Out – SQL Server Query Tuning Fundamentals Starts Next Monday!
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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
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Deploying SQL Server Developer Edition in Kubernetes: A Cost-Effective Alternative to RDS
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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