Rogue Software Changes
Today Steve Jones wonders if software developers would make changes to software on their own, without direction from management.
2019-10-29 (first published: 2015-11-16)
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Editorials
Contracting for Work
The decision to work for yourself instead of full time for an organization can be a hard one.
2019-10-28
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Become a Technological Historian
This week Grant muses on how history can impact our decisions moving forward, and having a little empathy can be useful when re-examining the past.
2019-10-26
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Taking Notes – Paper or Keyboard?
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren. When you need to take notes, how do you do it? Have you thought about it and experimented? Read on to see what Andy Warren does.
2019-10-25 (first published: 2012-01-31)
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Have a Think
It's easy for most of us to get caught up in work and not stop to think about the larger picture, or the longer term. Steve Jones thinks you should make time for both of these.
2019-10-24 (first published: 2015-10-01)
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The K8s Overview
Kubernetes is a technology Steve thinks will be important in the future and knowing a bit more about it can be important for your career.
2019-10-23
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Losing The Security Game
Losing the security game is no fun when data is involved. Steve points out some things you should be doing.
2019-10-21
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Protecting Data from the Inside
Phil Factor on the difficult task of guarding against the theft of data from within an organization.
2019-10-19
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2019-10-18
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More Network Restrictions
The rise of attacks is something Steve thinks will trigger more network protection, something data professionals will need to work with.
2019-10-17
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Blogs
SQL, MDX, DAX – the languages of data
By DataOnWheels
Ramblings of a retired data architect Let me start by saying that I have...
Setting PK Names in Redgate Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
A customer was testing Redgate Data Modeler and complained that it auto-generated PK names....
Flyway Tips: AI Deployment Script Descriptions
By Steve Jones
With the AI push being everywhere, Redgate is no exception. We’ve been getting requests,...
Forums
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High Availability setup - has anyone seen this method?
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Semantic Search in SQL Server 2025
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Question of the Day
Encoding URLs
I have this data in a SQL Server 2025 table:
CREATE TABLE Response ( ResponseID INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT ResponsePK PRIMARY KEY , ResponseVal VARBINARY(5000) ) GOIf I want to get a value from this table that I can add to a URL in a browser, which of these code items produces a result I can use? See possible answers