Internal Staff Growth
How do you approach adding to your team? Steve asks if you look internally or externally as a default.
2025-11-12
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Hiring
Hiring in IT and Relevance of Domain Experience
When choosing to hire someone, do you want experience or freshness? A few thoughts from someone that had to go through this recently.
2024-08-12
1,417 reads
Keeping Your Staff
Retaining staff is always a challenge for many organizations. Today Steve talks about the difficulties of doing so and in choosing who to retain.
2020-09-29
152 reads
How to Hire a Junior DBA
Brent Ozar covers some questions you need to ask yourself before hiring a Junior DBA.
2017-10-26
4,154 reads
Simple Talk is hiring a full-time editor
Have experience editing and writing technical content? Redgate is currently hiring for their educational publishing site, Simple Talk. They're open to accepting remote workers, so if you're interested, there's no excuse not to go ahead and apply!
2017-08-01 (first published: 2017-07-28)
4,722 reads
Blogs
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Setting FK Constraints in Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
One of the things a customer asked recently about Redgate Data Modeler was how...
Forums
Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
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The String Distance I
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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