Automating Replication On Your Server
If you use replication, you have had the situation occur where you had to restore a replicated database. You’ve have doubtless been paged to restore a replicated database. You...
2019-07-31
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The Non-Cluttered Index
2019-07-22
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One Way to Find Broken Code on Your Server
Before we approached our last major SQL Server upgrade, I was curious about what might break. Yes, I had used the DEA to check our code against deprecated or...
2019-07-19
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Why I Take Pictures at Conferences
Why do I take pictures of screens at conferences? Let me count them up for you! Read on...
2019-07-05
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Gone Fishing…
It's SQLIntersection time, and also time to meet a new member of the family. He's old enough for social media, though...
2019-06-07
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What is Service Broker, and Why Would We Use It?
I was recently asked in a Service Broker class that I was teaching why we would use it. Good question! Read on....
2019-05-15 (first published: 2019-05-03)
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Drop It Like It’s Hot (Part 2 of the Rename/Drop Objects Process)
Dread the drop no more! Part 2 of the rename/drop process.
2019-05-06 (first published: 2019-04-22)
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Find Occurrences of a String Anywhere on an Instance
Oh, the dreaded string search (on an entire instance). What to do?
2019-04-11
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Automatically Drop a Login/User (and Solve the Schema Owner Problem)
Ever tried to drop a user/login, only to find that they owned a schema? Here's how I do it...
2019-04-08
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That Awkward Moment When….
Let's be honest - some of our best learning experiences come from our mistakes. Here's one of mine....
2019-04-05
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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...
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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