Dating Your Employer
Looking for a new job? Want to pick the best one? Your employer probably feels the same way. Andy Warren talks about how your interview is more like dating than you think.
2013-09-27
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Editorial
2013-09-26
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2013-09-25
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The Human Cost of Managing Data
There's a cost to managing data that isn't always considered: the human cost. Additional stress, work, and load can result in less than efficient management, even when you contain hard costs.
2013-09-24
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Citizen Scientists
The increasing power and shrinking size of computing devices means that more and more people can gather and analyze data. Steve Jones talks about some opportunities.
2013-09-23
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Can SQL Server do ‘Big’?
Can SQL Server scale? Phil Factor has a few thoughts on the capacities that SQL Server can scale to.
2013-09-20
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Opportunities Abound
We have so many ways in which we can grow our SQL Server careers. Steve Jones shares a few today.
2013-09-19
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Job Worries over Automation
Are you worried about your job in the future? Steve Jones thinks you shouldn't be.
2013-09-18
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Sensors and Data
In the future we'll have a more programmable world, but it will be driven more by data than software.
2013-09-17
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The MCM Program is dead. Long live the MCMs!
Grant Fritchey on why he takes a dim view of most certifications, and why the MCM was different.
2013-09-16
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The Large Encoded Value
I want to use the new BASE64_ENCODE() function in SQL Server 2025, but return a string that isn't large type. What is the longest varbinary string I can pass in and still get a varchar(8000) returned?
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