The Old Way or the New Way
Learning to adapt the way we work is important for advancing our career, but this can be harder than we expect.
2020-07-29
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Career Growth
2020-07-06
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2020-07-02
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A 2020 Look at Software Developers
The results of a survey on software developers has some interesting insights.
2020-07-01
170 reads
Evaluating Life at Work
It can be hard to evaluate your career and job situation, but Steve has some ideas today.
2020-06-19
205 reads
Are You a Gatekeeper?
One of the problems that I've seen in many parts of life is the belief that things must proceed a certain way. I caught an article on ways teachers have made school less fun for kids because they adhered to some rule or belief too tightly. I think many of those stories are true because […]
2020-06-12
191 reads
Sabotage at Work
Some of the work habits that might sabotage an organization appear to have been adopted by some of Steve's former employers.
2020-06-01
267 reads
The Challenges of Working Under Quarantine
It's been nearly two months since the Redgate Software offices closed. I am not normally in the office, but I did cancel a trip that I normally would have taken to touch base with a number of teams. That's a minor change for me, but a still a change. It's much less than the disruption that […]
2020-05-28
141 reads
Enriching Your Life
As I was looking to build career goals for the new year, I think mostly about technical topics. That makes sense, given my focus and job, but I ran across an interesting thread on Hacker News that asked about skills to work on in 2020, and not necessarily technical ones. I did find it interesting […]
2020-05-26
108 reads
The Life List
Today Steve notes that having a list of things to do before you die can be a driving force for you.
2020-05-22
106 reads
Blogs
Narrow Task Decomposition in AI Pipeline Agents
A nightly load into sales_fact fails. Ask an orchestrating agent to break down the...
Car Update: August 2026
By Steve Jones
It’s been some time since I provided a car update, so I decided to...
Microsoft Fabric OneLake Shortcuts: When to Use Them and When Not To
By James Serra
An architecture scenario Imagine separate Sales, Finance, Shared Data, and Executive Analytics workspaces. Sales...
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Escaping Strings
The STRING_ESCAPE() function requires 2 parameters in SQL Server 2025. The first is a string of text and the second is the type of escape rules being used. What are the options for the second parameter?
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