The Information Schema and Cross-RDBMS Working
A look at the ODBC standard and how valuable it has been, unlike the Information Schema implementations.
2016-05-09
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Editorials
Work to Live
It's important that you remember to live and enjoy your life as it passes by. Today Steve Jones reminds us that we want to work to live, but also plan to live and plan for the future.
2016-05-06 (first published: 2012-05-02)
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Promoting Engineers
It seems that often we promote the best technical people into managerial positions, but is that a good idea? Steve Jones notes that a few people think this is a bad idea and there ought to be a technical career path for IT workers.
2016-05-05 (first published: 2012-05-01)
285 reads
What’s in a name?
When a business does not have an agreed set of definitions for their every day terms slow burning chaos ensues.
2016-05-04
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What Does a DBA Do?
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren as Steve is away. Andy tries to define what a DBA really does in a way that might make sense to others.
2016-05-03
320 reads
Cloud First
SQL Server 2016 is the first cloud first version of SQL Server being released as the on-premise product.
2016-04-27
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2016-04-26
118 reads
A nice whistle and flute
Phil Factor recounts the most important lesson of his early IT career: try not to burst into giggles when you get to look at the client's IT system.
2016-04-25
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2016-04-25
100 reads
2016-04-22
88 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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