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
64 reads
2024-09-27
666 reads
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
181 reads
2024-09-21
137 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
392 reads
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
133 reads
2023-11-24
157 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
103 reads
Digitizing Construction
One of the more analog industries is embracing digital change faster and faster./
2021-08-11
283 reads
Blogs
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...
2025 Wrapped for Steve
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
Forums
The North Star for the Year
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Multiple Escape Characters
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reaching ftp thru winscp but erroring in ssis ftp task connection
Hi, below i show various results trying to reach our ftp site (a globalscape...
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