Steve Jones

My background is I have been working with computers since I was about 12. My first "career" job in this industry was with network administration where I became the local DBA by default. I have also spent lots of time administering Netware and NT networks, developing software, managing smaller IT groups, making lots of coffee, ordering pizza for late nights, etc., etc.

I currently am the editor of SQL Server Central and an advocate/architect at Redgate Software. I am also the President of SQL Saturday, maintain the T-SQL Tuesday monthly party, and remember our colleagues at sqlmemorial.org.

You can find out more about me on my blog (www.voiceofthedba.com) or LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/in/way0utwest)
  • Interests: yoga, reading, biking, snowboarding, volleyball

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Install SQL Scripts via GUI Wizard

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Hallo all! My problem is this: I have quite a bunch of TSQL scripts...

Converting Money

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non ascii columns in a utf-8 .txt file

By stan

hi, we couldnt get our upstream data source developers to supply what is sometimes...

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Question of the Day

Converting Money

Does this run successfully on a SQL Server 2022, US English default installation? 

DECLARE @YenAmount MONEY;
SET @YenAmount = ¥1500; 

SELECT @YenAmount AS RawValue;

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