Mercenary
Steve Jones talks about making deliberate career choices, or just moving from place to place without any worry about the job. Do you care about what work you do? Or is it just a job?
2018-05-18 (first published: 2014-10-14)
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Editorial
Document, then Install
Should we declare what we want installed and then have every instance configure itself? Steve Jones talks about the need to ensure we know what is running before we install rather than documenting it afterwards.
2014-10-13
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Fun Data Analysis
This week Steve wants to know if you'd have some issues when analyzing data and you've mistaken correlation for causation.
2014-10-10
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Continuous Delivery for Windows?
It seems as though Microsoft might be moving to a Continuous Delivery process for Windows 10. Steve Jones isn't sure that's a good thing, but it is interesting.
2014-10-09
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A T-SQL Code Testing Guide
Testing our database code is a fairly immature process for many of this, but perhaps we could build a guide that helps everyone learn to write better and more comprehensive tests.
2018-11-23 (first published: 2014-10-07)
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Saving Hard Dollars
Data analysis can save money and resources, but it will certainly transform our world.
2014-10-06
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2014-10-06
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The Decline of SQL Server
The popularity of SQL Server seems to be high, but there might be reasons to be concerned.
2014-10-03
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The Final Service Packs
Microsoft has released a final service pack for SQL Server 2008 R2, which many of you might want to install.
2014-10-02
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Challenge Yourself
How do you grow your career? Steve Jones has a few ideas on what you can do to both improve your skills and build your brand.
2014-09-30
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Blogs
The Book of Redgate: Spread across the world
By Steve Jones
This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...
Merry Christmas
By John
Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...
Self-Hosting a Photo Server the Whole Family Can Use
By Bert Wagner
Until recently, my family's 90,000+ photos have been hidden away in the depths of...
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Question of the Day
UNISTR Escape
In SQL Server 2025, I run this command:
SELECT UNISTR('*3041*308A*304C\3068 and good night', '*') as "A Classic";
What is returned? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
A: 
B: 
C: 
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