Communicate Smarter Not More
After installing Microsoft Teams, Steve has a bit of communication overload.
2019-05-13
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Editorials
2019-05-11
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The Impediments to Change
SQL Server is releasing a new version of the engine every 12-24 months at this point. That puts pressure on all of us to learn constantly about the changes. Even if we don't look to upgrade all of our existing instances, we can't buy older versions when the new one is released. Often many of […]
2019-05-10
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The Death of the GDPR
The GDPR is struggling with enforcement against some of the larger tech companies. Steve thinks this is a problem, but it might not matter for smaller companies.
2019-05-09
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Default Backups and Feature Awareness
Default backup schemes for databases would be a nice enhancement.
2019-05-08
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A Double Failure
A company has both a server without a password and live data in test environments. Not a good situation.
2019-05-07
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Really Important Software
Software often controls hardware, which can make it the critical part of a system. That's something we should be learning from the Boeing 737-Max crashes.
2019-05-06
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The Blast Radius of a database
Phil Factor feels that the database gets the short shrift in any outage - it's time to stop saying "the database has gone down" and time to start thinking about the resilience of the entire system.
2019-05-04
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Serverless
The idea of serverless computing is interesting, and with Azure Stack, might be something more of us embrace.
2019-05-02
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Are you a Data Scientist?
A data scientist needs some specialized skills. Today Steve Jones talks a bit about the requirements to be good at this job.
2019-05-01 (first published: 2015-09-29)
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Blogs
Flyway Tips: AI Deployment Script Descriptions
By Steve Jones
With the AI push being everywhere, Redgate is no exception. We’ve been getting requests,...
A New Word: Fawtle
By Steve Jones
fawtle – n. a weird little flaw built into your partner that somehow only...
Post-quantum key exchange – Insurance policy for your packets
AWS recently added support for Post-Quantum Key Exchange for TLS in Application Load Balancer...
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Question of the Day
Encoding URLs
I have this data in a 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