2015-12-14
308 reads
Editorials
How Much Eventual Consistency Do You Have?
This week Steve Jones wants to know if you have eventual consistency in your environment?
2015-12-11
245 reads
Are We Engineers?
Steve Jones continues the never ending argument of whether software developers deserve the moniker of engineer.
2015-12-10
170 reads
2015-12-09
117 reads
Building Better Communication Skills
Today Steve Jones reminds us that our communication skills are important. They are something that we use constantly at work and are worth developing.
2015-12-08 (first published: 2011-01-10)
432 reads
IT Data Governance and the Insider Job
Good IT data governance is about crime-prevention as well as crime-detection. Legal action runs war a close second as being one of the more futile and debilitating of human activities, so prevention is always better.
2015-12-07
114 reads
The Office
Would you be more productive outside of an office? Would you take a pay cut to work outside of an office? Steve Jones notes that a number of IT professionals said they would.
2015-12-07 (first published: 2010-12-29)
289 reads
Gratitude
Today we have a guest editorial from Erin Stellato that reminds us that we have had support from many, and it's important to thank them from time to time.
2015-12-04
137 reads
What is DevOps?
The DevOps moniker seems to bring together good practices that some companies have followed for years. However lots don't, and today Steve Jones tries to get inspire a few of you to give it a try.
2015-12-03
216 reads
Rethinking Hiring
Today Steve Jones looks at the problems we have with hiring staff and the troubles we go through. Perhaps we can do better with an investment in our people.
2015-12-02
169 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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