Knowing What's Normal
This week Database Weekly has a lot of performance related posts and Steve Jones notes that those are not of much use unless you know you really do have a performance problem.
2010-06-07
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Editorial
What Will We Take For Granted Tomorrow?
A guest editorial from Tim Mitchell today looks at technology, and how quickly we become accustomed to it.
2010-06-07
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Limited Features or Limited Time?
A guest editorial today from Andy Warren. When someone is looking to introduce a free version of a product, what's the best way to tackle it?
2010-06-04
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Change the Edition or Change the Design?
Today Steve Jones talks about revisiting your design and perhaps thinking about buying another edition of SQL Server to take advantage of some feature.
2010-06-03
122 reads
Loud
Working in an office was quite a change for Steve Jones recently. He comments today that it might be something you need to consider when hiring others as well.
2010-06-02
171 reads
TCA
SQL Server has a lower TCA, total cost of administration, than Oracle. Steve Jones comments today on a few of the reasons.
2010-06-01
132 reads
Getting the Message
Regardless of the speed of your SQL routines there comes a time, for any server-based system, when you need to think "parallel" and "asynchronous". So why, Phil Factor wonders, does there seem to be so little interest in Service Broker?
2010-05-31
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2010-05-31
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Would You Do Your Hobby for a Living
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren that asks about your hobbies, and would you trade your job for one of them?
2010-05-28
160 reads
Personal Privacy
A new technique to help anonymize medical research data has been developed, and could help with other types of data, but there is an issue.
2010-05-27
91 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