Moving On After a Technology Fail
After his watch broke, Steve had to get a new tool and isn't sure it was a good move.
2025-02-21
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Technology
Where's the Printer Friendly Option?
Steve reminisces about the older technology of putting words on paper, often from the web.
2024-10-04
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2024-09-27
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AI Is Great and Tech is Failing
Steve is a little disappointed in technology that didn't work well after a security incident.
2024-09-25
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2024-09-21
142 reads
It's Time to Play
Writing editorials every few weeks for a technical mailing list has been one of the more challenging responsibilities in my (nearly) two years with Redgate as an advocate working with Steve, Grant, and Louis. Each week, it’s interesting for me to see the mix of technical insights and everyday life stuff that each of us […]
2024-08-31
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Continuity Across Restarts
A cloud version of Aurora MySQL has added support for the buffer pool to survive restarts of the database engine. Steve thinks that's an interesting technology, which could be helpful.
2024-01-12
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2023-11-24
159 reads
Using Technology for Health
I've been fairly healthy and fit for most of my life. While I've always had a few extra pounds, I do try to eat better than average and I exercise regularly. That didn't stop age and some pandemic laxity from catching up with me. My annual checkup last December had my doctor (and me) slightly […]
2022-03-05
112 reads
Digitizing Construction
One of the more analog industries is embracing digital change faster and faster./
2021-08-11
285 reads
Blogs
From SQL Saturday to Day of Data
By ReviewMyDB
A behind-the-scenes look at Day of Data Jacksonville 2026, the transition from SQL Saturday,...
PostgreSQL 18 Finally Makes BUFFERS the Default. Here Is Why That Matters
You run EXPLAIN ANALYZE on a slow query, stare at the plan, and something...
A New Word: La Guadière
By Steve Jones
la guadière – n. a glint of goodness you notice in something that you...
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Question of the Day
Running SQLCMD I
I run the SQLCMD utility as follows:
lcmd -S localhost -EI then type this (the 1> is the prompt):
1> select @@version goIf I hit enter, what happens? See possible answers