The Human Impact of a Capable AI
Computing systems and algorithms continue to improve, especially in the machine learning and AI spaces. What does that mean for us humans?
2017-05-15
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Editorials
Less QA?
It seems that QA is being cut more and more as software development advances. Is that a good thing? Steve Jones has some thoughts.
2017-05-12 (first published: 2013-07-31)
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What do you do when you have a repetitive task to do?
When faced with repetitive tasks how do you go about doing them in a focused timely manner?
2017-05-11
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2017-05-09 (first published: 2013-08-08)
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2017-05-08
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Three Days and a Notebook
Steve Jones is off to Seattle for the rest of the week attending Microsoft Build 2017.
2017-05-08
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2017-05-05
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2017-05-03
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The Secret Password
The secret passwords we store in systems might be secure from discovery, but are they secure from use?
2017-05-02
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2017-05-01
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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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The Large Encoded Value
I want to use the new BASE64_ENCODE() function in SQL Server 2025, but return a string that isn't large type. What is the longest varbinary string I can pass in and still get a varchar(8000) returned?
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