The Five Year Plan
Is your IT department outdated? There's a prediction that they won't be around in five years. Steve Jones doesn't agree.
2016-12-12 (first published: 2013-06-13)
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Editorials
The One Metric to Rule Them All
Measuring the performance of systems isn't always just CPU, RAM, and Disk IO. Today Steve Jones looks at business based metrics.
2016-12-09
105 reads
Testing Coders
It seems that everyone has a different idea on how to interview people. Today Steve Jones looks at the technique of having someone improve some code in real time.
2016-12-08
104 reads
What do you do when you inherit a mess at work?
I have seen three common responses to database messes. My favorite is nuclear.
2016-12-06
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2016-12-05
97 reads
First Class Jobs
This week Steve Jones examines the idea of making jobs in SQL Server, first class citizens.
2016-12-02
103 reads
Learn to Earn
Learning more about your craft can translate into more earnings, but it won't be easy.
2016-12-01
109 reads
The Pressure to Compromise Ethics
There are always people that ask workers to deceive, defraud, or mislead customers. This is true for software developers as well.
2016-11-30
103 reads
Finally, Create or Alter
Today Steve Jones looks at the CREATE OR ALTER syntax, added in SQL Server 2016 SP1.
2016-11-29
165 reads
Hire the Right People
Today Steve Jones discusses the need to hire the people to do the tasks we need done, not the position we filled.
2016-11-28
129 reads
Blogs
2025 Wrapped for Steve
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
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...
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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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