Contracting – Your best clients are your current clients…
and your old clients too.
Before I started my contracting business five years ago I realised the importance of selling and...
2012-06-20
830 reads
Gethyn Ellis
Washington DC in the Summertime
As I mentioned in my post last week I was fortunate enough to visit Washington DC a week or so...
2012-06-18
727 reads
@LearningTree: 2108 SQL Server 2012 Database Administration
This past week my international adventures have continued. As some of you know, for the past couple of years, I...
2012-06-13
1,536 reads
Twitter Handle Change
I have been thinking about this for a while now, but I have decided to change my twitter handle. I...
2012-06-08
728 reads
Ottawa In the Summer Time
I wrote a post earlier this week telling you all about my trip to Ottawa last week, during my trip...
2012-06-01
861 reads
How to Give your .NET application HA
By David Postlethwaite
I was at a meeting the other week when someone mentioned that you could specify two SQL Servers...
2012-05-31
1,740 reads
Learning Tree: SQL Server DBA Skills Upgrade
I’m very lucky in my work as freelance consultant and trainer I get to travel the world, and last week...
2012-05-30
2,129 reads
Books for Learning Transact SQL
I got asked a question recently about what books I would recommend for learning T-SQL. I posted a couple months...
2012-05-29
1,114 reads
The Importance of Regular Blogging
Between my old website, which I started back in 2007 (which has since disappeared) and my blog, which I switched...
2012-05-28
1,029 reads
Looking for a DBA? Looking for a New Job?
Ryan Recruiter meet Dave DBA…
As a contractor and consultant I get to speak to many agents and recruiters and over...
2012-03-14
709 reads
Blogs
Resetting on the AI hype train
By Brian Kelley
There's a great article from MIT Technology Review about resetting on the hype of...
A New Word: Etherness
By Steve Jones
etherness – n. the wistful feeling of looking around a gathering of loved ones,...
Vibe Coding a Login Tracking System
By Steve Jones
A customer was asking about tracking logins and logouts in Redgate Monitor. We don’t...
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Question of the Day
UNISTR Basics
What does this code return in SQL Server 2025+? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
SELECT UNISTR('Hello 4E16754C') AS 'A Classic';
A: 
B: 
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