Beyond Automation
Are there some things that are beyond automation in your company? Steve Jones comments on the difficulty of changing things with automation in some cases.
2010-08-19
281 reads
Editorial
Penalties
Terry Childs gets sentenced for refusing to turn over passwords to his boss. Steve Jones reminds us that we work for someone and that we have to remember that when taking a stand.
2010-08-18
296 reads
Keeping Engaged
How can you better keep employees engaged in your company? Keep them happy and hopefully retain them for a long time? Steve Jones has some comments today.
2010-08-17
163 reads
Turn a Bad Job into a Good Experience
Today we have a guest editorial from Tim Mitchell that tells you how to turn a bad job into something more.
2010-08-16
379 reads
A Server is Not a Machine
With cloud computing use growing, and SQL Server Azure becoming more popular, Steve Jones wishes this would become a product that the rest of us could deploy.
2010-08-16
162 reads
The Value of Blogging
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren that talks about the value of blogging.
2010-08-13
141 reads
Failed IT Projects
A new theory of why some IT projects fail has Steve Jones intrigued, however he thinks we can do better, and not just with better developers.
2010-08-12
323 reads
The Bottom Line
A good employee should try to affect the bottom line in their company, striving to make a difference. Steve Jones passes on some advice on how to do that today.
2010-08-11
174 reads
Fooling SQL Server
Today Steve Jones looks at the new release of restore technology from Red Gate software that allows you to "fool" SQL Server.
2010-08-10
471 reads
(Un)Common Speed Phreakery
Is there such a thing as too much attention to the performance of SQL? It isn’t only a question of time and inclination, but also of the resilience and flexibility of the code.
2010-08-09
163 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