The Window Is Shrinking
Today Steve talks about security and the fact that your window for lax security is shrinking for new applications.
2011-08-09
132 reads
Editorial
What SQL Server Books Do You Recommend
Brad's noticed that there are fewer good books about SQL Server on the shelves, and asks which books you'd recommend to people who are new to SQL Server
2011-08-08
389 reads
Hardware Hacking
Steve Jones examines one of the issues of foreign chip production: security. Will this be an attack vector in the future?
2011-08-08
144 reads
2011-08-05
308 reads
The Woes of Cloud Computing
Steve Jones talks about the problems you might face when moving to cloud computing and the fact that you ought to be prepared to move at some point.
2011-08-04
158 reads
It’s Good to Eat Alone
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren that looks at the choice of eating with someone else, or alone and the benefits of each.
2011-08-03
205 reads
Jobs for Data Scientists
Steve Jones talks about data science and the growing number of jobs that are available in this field.
2011-08-02
166 reads
The Impact of Outages
Steve Jones talks about the problems of outages, and why we ought to perhaps introduce failure into our systems to help us learn to cope with them.
2011-08-01
77 reads
A Cast of Thousands
In a guest editorial, Rodney Landrum offers a light-hearted guide to role of each member of the cast in a typical SQL code deployment.
2011-08-01
138 reads
Geeky Distractions
This Friday Steve Jones has a non-work related, but fun poll. Let us know what your geeky media recommendations are this year.
2011-07-29
141 reads
Blogs
Advice I Like: Pyramid Schemes
By Steve Jones
If someone is trying to convince you it’s not a pyramid scheme, it’s a...
Using Prompt AI for a Travel Data Analysis
By Steve Jones
I was looking back at my year and decided to see if SQL Prompt...
FinOps for Kubernetes: Leveraging OpenCost, KubeGreen, and Kubecost for Cost Efficiency
In the era of cloud-native applications, Kubernetes has become the default standard platform for...
Forums
Database file shrink issue.
Hi experts, I have a 3+ TB database on a 2019 sql server which...
The North Star for the Year
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Multiple Escape Characters
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Question of the Day
Multiple Escape Characters
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code (in a database with the appropriate collation):
SELECT UNISTR('%*3041%*308A%*304C%*3068 and good night', '%*') AS 'A Classic';
What is returned? See possible answers