Creative IT Learning
If a successful IT career is just as much about tenacity, interest and retention as it is about brainpower, then how does one go about continuous learning?
2017-03-06
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Editorials
A Welcome Delay
An open letter to Microsoft from the CEO of Mandriva Linux might not have been the best idea.
2017-03-04 (first published: 2007-11-30)
364 reads
Null Defaults
Today Steve Jones asks what default values you might choose for new columns in a table.
2017-03-03
121 reads
Why I am Excited about SQL Server on Linux
Read why Solomon Rutzky is excited about SQL Server running on Linux.
2017-03-02
560 reads
Detecting Issues
How do you detect issues in your systems? Testing? Monitoring? Steve Jones has a few thoughts that we should find ways to do so before our customers.
2017-03-01
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2017-02-28
225 reads
Human and Machine Learning
Machine learning and AI are becoming more and more prevalent, which Steve Jones thinks is good.
2017-02-27
112 reads
The Secure Medical Data Challenge
This week Steve looks at the challenges of security for medical data.
2017-02-27
85 reads
The Cloud is Just a Tool
Today Steve Jones argues the cloud is just another tool for us to use. Not required, not ignored, but considered.
2017-02-23
114 reads
Why Object Databases will always be Tomorrow's Technology
For many years now we always seem to have been on the verge of the revolution in object databases, without it ever quite transpiring. Why is this?
2017-02-21 (first published: 2009-06-17)
749 reads
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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Question of the Day
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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