Hyper-V Guests
To what extent should a hypervisor company support other software? Will this have implications for cloud computing, or services used in software? Steve Jones comments.
2010-12-16
76 reads
Editorial
We Are Not a Meritocracy
Today Steve Jones reminds us that talent and technical skills are not necessarily enough to advance your career and that you ought to remember to work on other types of skills that you may want to improve.
2010-12-15
214 reads
The Low End
Today Steve Jones talks about those products we consider "low-end." Products like Access or VB. Are they a problem for us?
2010-12-14
176 reads
iPads for Christmas
A contest from Red Gate and Steve Jones could get you a copy of SQL Monitor and an iPad for Christmas. Steve Jones talks about how you can enter, and perhaps win an iPad for yourself this holiday season.
2010-12-13
1,769 reads
How Do You Work When You are Not at Work?
Things have evolved since the days of essential pagers and landline connections. Or have they? Brad ponders how the nature of remote working is evolving, and invites you help others learn from your experiences.
2010-12-13
165 reads
Shrinking Databases
One piece of advice that is often given to new SQL Server administrators is not to shrink their databases. But they seem to do it often enough anyway. For this Friday's poll, Steve Jones asks if we should do away with shrink.
2010-12-10
981 reads
Certified Private Clouds
Microsoft is working to certify vendors to build private clouds, which Steve Jones thinks is a great idea.
2010-12-09
171 reads
Costing Cool Projects
Can you accurately determine the cost or benefit of a new, cool project up front? Steve Jones thinks not, but coming up with new projects can be a way to set yourself apart from others.
2010-12-08
112 reads
Elections
Steve Jones found a very fascinating way that might keep elections more secure, verifiable, and also more open.
2010-12-07
105 reads
How will SSDs change SQL Server storage arrays?
If SSDs are about to make obsolete one of the major driving forces behind the development of SANs (disk latency) then how is the storage array going to change in the near future?
2010-12-06
513 reads
Blogs
Catching Up On SQLOrlando
By Andy Warren
Somehow two years have elapsed since my last update; hopefully it won’t be that...
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...
Forums
Switch partition: NULL boundary id
I have table: t1 in schema1 with 19 billion records. I have another table...
Minimally Viable Security
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Encoding NULL
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Question of the Day
Encoding NULL
What is returned from this code in SQL Server 2025?
SELECT BASE64_ENCODE(NULL)See possible answers