2016-01-11
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Editorials
2016-01-08
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2016-01-07
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Hacking to Hide
People have hacked the voyage data recorders in ships. Steve Jones thinks this is a fundamental problem in computing systems.
2016-01-05
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Surface Book
Steve Jones is looking for a new laptop. Perhaps. Read on to see what he wants in a machine.
2016-01-04
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The SQLite alternative to NoSQL
Phil factor argues that if you are within the SQL and relational mindset, there is no good technical reason to have to change, since SQLite takes care of all the small stuff and the new breed of NewSQL takes care of the jelly-masses of unstructured data.
2016-01-04
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2016-01-01
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2015-12-31
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Sharing Code
Most people blog to share something they've done, and hopefully with the idea that someone else will learn and benefit from it. Steve Jones is happy to share code, but not everyone seems to be in agreement. In any case, you ought to respect the author's wishes.
2015-12-29 (first published: 2011-01-25)
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Is Change Coming?
In the final Database Weekly of 2015, Steve Jones looks at a CIO's column on workplace change.
2015-12-28
118 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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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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