If you’ve ever had to format dates and times in SQL, you’ve probably come across one of the most jarring realities of working across platforms: every major RDBMS does it differently and sometimes confusingly. What’s a TO_CHAR() in Oracle becomes FORMAT() or CONVERT() in SQL Server, and its sort of the same in PostgreSQL… but […]
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When you create something, do you think about the future? Steve asks the question today.
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There are a number of ways to run SQL Server for free (or low cost) for development. Read a bit about how to do this.
2024-02-23
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One of the slowest parts of any application is data retrieval and in this article, we look at how to cache SQL Server data for a web application.
2023-05-22
When I first started work as a software developer, I knew that getting an environment set up where I could compile a project might take a few hours or a few days. The complexities of how people built software projects, the dependencies, and more were handled in a very immature manner. These days I can […]
2022-11-16
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Steve notes that there are differences between state based development and migration based development, but neither is necessarily better.
2021-10-06
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2020-11-13
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The challenges of state in databases can impact our development efforts.
2020-08-31
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By Brian Kelley
There's a great article from MIT Technology Review about resetting on the hype of...
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A customer was asking about tracking logins and logouts in Redgate Monitor. We don’t...
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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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