2018-06-21
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Editorials
Release Wednesday
One of the teams at Red Gate is releasing new changes every Wednesday, which reminds Steve Jones of a time earlier in his career.
2018-06-20 (first published: 2015-04-08)
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After Six Months On The Job What Challenges Remain?
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren that asks what you might do when you get settled at a new job.
2018-06-19 (first published: 2015-04-10)
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Providing Feedback to Speakers
One of the greatest things that has arisen in the past 10 years or so is a veritable stream of great conferences for people to learn how to write better software, many of them low cost or even free. In the Data Platform community, we have had nearly 800 free SQL Saturday events around the […]
2018-06-18
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State v Migrations
Steve Jones talks a bit about the difference between state based and migrations based approaches for deployment.
2018-06-18 (first published: 2015-04-09)
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More Query Tuning?
What types of sessions are important in a conference schedule? Steve Jones talks a bit about the lack of tuning sessions.
2018-06-15
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Building Test Data
Steve talks about the importance of test data and how to get it in development environments.
2018-06-14
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2018-06-13
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Machine Learning in the Database
Steve talks about Machine Learning Services in SQL Server and whether using this is a good idea.
2018-06-12
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Be Prepared with Baselines
Analyzing performance often requires you to understand what is normal and what is not. Steve talks about the importance of baselines.
2018-06-11
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Blogs
The Book of Redgate: Spread across the world
By Steve Jones
This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...
Merry Christmas
By John
Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...
Self-Hosting a Photo Server the Whole Family Can Use
By Bert Wagner
Until recently, my family's 90,000+ photos have been hidden away in the depths of...
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Happy Holidays, Let's Do Nerdy Stuff
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UNISTR Escape
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Celebrating Tomorrow
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Question of the Day
UNISTR Escape
In SQL Server 2025, I run this command:
SELECT UNISTR('*3041*308A*304C\3068 and good night', '*') as "A Classic";
What is returned? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
A: 
B: 
C: 
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