The Pandemic Work Load
With the new year proceeding along, we are still in a pandemic. Is that affecting your work load?
2021-02-12
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Work environment
Are You Empowered?
Many people don't feel like they can make changes in their work environment. Today Steve notes this is common in many organizations.
2021-01-25
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Dread or Desire
Today Steve wonders about the move back to offices and if you are looking forward to it or trying to avoid it.
2021-01-04
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Keeping Your Staff
Retaining staff is always a challenge for many organizations. Today Steve talks about the difficulties of doing so and in choosing who to retain.
2020-09-29
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Remote Work Benefits
Today Steve wonders if companies ought to support remote work better with other benefits.
2020-09-11
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2020-08-17
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2020-08-12
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A Dedicated Space
Today Steve looks at one possible future of offices, which might be something we own.
2020-07-20
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Blogs
Don’t Miss Out – SQL Server Query Tuning Fundamentals Starts Next Monday!
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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