Kitchen Duty
As an employee, are you willing to pitch in for things that aren't a normal part of your job? Today we have Andy Warren notes that he has kitchen duty at work.
2014-06-16
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Editorials
Habits and Familiarity
A new series about kicking bad habits reminds Steve Jones that there are good and bad sides to having set practices. Even the best habits you have in technology will likely need to evolve over time.
2014-06-13 (first published: 2009-10-12)
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2014-06-12
654 reads
2014-06-11
646 reads
Try to focus on the positive
When we focus on negative things we get more negative. Be thankful for something positive.
2014-06-10
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2014-06-09
176 reads
Motivating the Team
It's easy to get excited if you work at a startup, or a software company. But for corporate workers that toil in IT departments all around the world, how do you keep them motivated? Steve Jones has a few thoughts about simple things that make workers feel better about their jobs.
2014-06-06 (first published: 2009-10-07)
295 reads
IT and the Older Generation
David Poole looks at the interactions of technology across generations in this guest editorial.
2014-06-02
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Should your Source Control System understand your code?
Phil Factor ponders why improvements to source control and versioning so often lag behind the pace of progress in development as a whole.
2014-06-02
146 reads
2014-05-30
346 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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Question of the Day
UNISTR Escape
In SQL Server 2025, I run this command:
SELECT UNISTR('*3041*308A*304C\3068 and good night', '*') as "A Classic";
What is returned? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
A: 
B: 
C: 
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