A View of the Cloud
Today Steve Jones looks at how we can better build software by considering the cloud.
2017-02-06
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Editorials
Close Encounters of the CEIP Kind
Microsoft's Customer Experience Improvement Program for SQL Server: once easy to avoid, now hard to ignore, but Rodney Landrum sees an upside.
2017-02-06
1,529 reads
Your Favorite Feature that Needs Work
This week Steve Jones asks what parts of SQL Server would you improve and why.
2017-02-03
73 reads
The Great and Powerful Internet of Things
A look at the good, and bad, of the IoT world along with the potential future.
2017-02-02
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A Wide Variation in Skill
We all have different levels of skills, and it's not always because we don't try. Sometimes it's a question of timing.
2017-01-31
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2017-01-30
71 reads
The New SQL Server 2016 Edition Limits
There are some changes to memory limits in SQL Server 2016 SP1 Standard Edition.
2017-01-26
1,646 reads
The War Room
When things go wrong, how do you handle them? Steve Jones comments on crisis management using a great example from Amazon.
2017-01-25
205 reads
Something I learned while unemployed
Being unemployed is difficult. Here's something I learned to help me through it.
2017-01-24
282 reads
2017-01-23
117 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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