Getting Fired from an Unpaid Job.
Phil Factor initially brooded about being fired from a job he was just doing unpaid to help out. Then he suddenly realized that they were probably right.
2010-09-13
346 reads
Editorial
Instrumentation
This Friday Steve Jones is looking for the instrumentation or monitoring that you build into your applications.
2010-09-10
179 reads
Enjoy Your Job
A reminder today that there are people that enjoy their jobs. Steve Jones reminds us that we should take jobs based on that criteria.
2010-09-09
253 reads
Developer Deployment Frustrations
SQL Server should work to make it easy for developers to work with it, and include versions like Express in their applications.
2016-10-11 (first published: 2010-09-08)
360 reads
Talking To You Makes Me Smarter
There's a lot of value in the interactions that professionals have with each other. A guest editorial from Andy Warren talks about the benefits of meeting new people.
2010-09-07
136 reads
Please don’t Tweet this, but…
Brad worries that with the advent and growth of social media, has come an increasing concern that today's private conversation may turn into tomorrow's world-wide Tweet.
2010-09-06
170 reads
Labor Day 2010
It's Labor Day in the US, and a day off for Steve, so enjoy this set of bloopers from his podcast.
2010-09-06
60 reads
2010-09-03
96 reads
Check Twice, Update Once
An update to the Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer tool intrigues Steve Jones as it seems to have been enhanced to better help DBAs manage SQL Server.
2010-09-02
149 reads
Where Are the Programmers?
Today Steve Jones has a little fun with titles in technology, and what we might start to call ourselves instead of DBAs.
2010-09-01
248 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