What Helps You Learn?
This Friday Steve Jones looks to find out what things help people learn and build skills more readily.
2016-09-23
84 reads
Editorials
Capture the Flag
A competition among software bots may foretell a vision of the future for software developers.
2016-09-22
92 reads
Why We Need Backups First
This week Steve Jones notes that backups aren't the most important thing for your data. Restores are.
2016-09-19
103 reads
Data Science Education
Data Science is a hot area and one to which quite a few people would like to move. Steve Jones has some thoughts on trying to get certified in this area.
2016-09-15
166 reads
2016-09-14
115 reads
Encryption Keys Matter
Protecting the keys used for encrypion can really matter for companies, and in today's complex world, that can be difficult. Monitoring becomes important to helping here.
2016-09-13
71 reads
Ignoring Database Version Control
Steve Jones thinks version control is important, even for databases.
2016-09-12
146 reads
Teaching a dog to sing
To survive the inevitable downturns in the IT industry, Phil Factor argues that a IT manager needs to take time to maintain technical skills. It is not enough to understand development; you have to be able to do it.
2016-09-12
103 reads
Impressive Accomplishments
What things impress you most about potential candidates. This week Steve Jones asks the question to try and understand what types of activities data professionals might consider.
2016-09-09 (first published: 2013-02-15)
261 reads
Practicing Deployments
Amateurs practice until they can get something right. Professionals practice until they don't get things wrong. How should we handle our deployments?
2016-09-07 (first published: 2013-02-12)
383 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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