Logistics For All Day Meetings
Quick thoughts about the work required to make all day meetings run smoothly:
Suitable space with enough seating (and reasonable chairs!)Turn...
2014-05-07 (first published: 2014-05-01)
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Andy Warren
Datatypes In Your Mind–Question Of The Day
My latest question Datatypes In Your Mind is live today and it’s generated quite the discussion. I wrote here about...
2014-05-06
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2014-05-06
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Better, Faster, and Cheaper
When building a system, you need to make choices. However, do you always need to make the choice of only two of the three "good, fast, or cheap" choices? Andy Warren has a few thoughts.
2014-05-05
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SQLServerCentral Editorial: Better, Faster, and Cheaper
Better, Faster, and Cheaper was published today and I hope you’ll read it, and then challenge your own assumptions for...
2014-05-05
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Blogging-Write More
Blogging isn’t easy. You have to come up with a topic, write about it, and then release it for the...
2014-05-02 (first published: 2014-04-22)
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Building the SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan–Part 5
More notes, many from a chat with Kendal.
We wish we could see the open rate on email and an...
2014-05-02
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Building the SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan–Part 6 (Seminars)
Seminars (aka “pre-cons”) have been part of the DNA of SQLSaturday going back to #1. For those that weren’t there...
2014-05-02
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Building the SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan–Part 4
I spent some more time last night thinking about the event and marketing it. Biased I am, but I think...
2014-05-01
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A New Stressor
I tend to be amused when I run into something that causes me stress because I like to think – foolishly...
2014-04-30
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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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