2014-07-29
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Steve Jones
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Frustration with Bad Design
It can be frustrating to deal with poorly implemented systems, but Steve Jones notes that you can't take things into your own hands.
2014-07-28
303 reads
Frustration with Bad Design
It can be very easy for technology experts to get frustrated when they see bad design and practices, but you must be careful with how you go about trying to influence change.
2014-07-28
24 reads
Summer, Summer, Summertime
This Friday Steve Jones has a poll about your summertime activities. What have you done away from work that was memorable?
2014-07-25
109 reads
Quick Tips–SQL Prompt Aliases for Every Table
I love SQL Prompt, and think it’s a great productivity tool. Even before I worked at Red Gate, I love...
2014-07-24 (first published: 2014-07-17)
9,805 reads
T-SQL–Converting Seconds to Time
I was working on a small piece of code the other day that was calculating the seconds for an event....
2014-07-23
1,490 reads
2014-07-22
260 reads
2014-07-21
163 reads
Powershell Tips–Showwindow
Looking for help is a pain in Powershell. I type something like
help get-process
execute this and I’m scrolling up and down....
2014-07-21
1,162 reads
2014-07-21
2,175 reads
Blogs
Five Ways Redshift Serverless Quietly Eats Your Budget
It is Friday, the queries are running, and nobody is watching the bill. That...
A Career of Memories
By Steve Jones
Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...
Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead
By Tim Radney
As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
Forums
Midjourney, Healthcare?
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Changes, Happiness, and a Few Tears
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BCP on Linux
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Question of the Day
BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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