Houston TechFest UG Leadership Summit
At the Houston TechFest 2011 Conference at the University of Houston I will be hosting a User Group Leadership Summit...
2011-10-06
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SQL Tact
New website, exciting future for BRSSUG
Just wanted to push out an announcement that the Baton Rouge SQL Server User Group has a new website.
www.brssug.org
We've...
2011-09-30
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Striped backups in SQL Server
Some DBA's don't realize that SQL server can perform a database backup that breaks up the files - stripes them - in...
2011-09-12
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Moving the SQL replication snapshot folder
I recently addressed an issue where a client server's data volume was getting dangerously tight on free space. It contained...
2011-09-02
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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
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...
Forums
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