Top of Your Profession
How do you determine if you're at the top of your profession? Andy Warren has a few thoughts today.
2024-01-19
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Editorials
Learning NoSQL
NoSQL is an option for a database platform and Steve wonders if you can discuss and debate the use of NoSQL for your business partners? Or are you going to learn more? He is.
2024-01-17
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Portable Data Storage
Today Steve wonders if the technology for storage and data transfers has superseded the need for portable drives.
2024-01-15
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Play To Your Strengths
I really enjoy playing with radios [ed: we know, you won't shut up about it]. Something as simple as checking in to a local net (basically saying hi to a bunch of people on the radio) is fun. However, there's so much more to it. In the last few weeks I've been testing a new […]
2024-01-13
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Continuity Across Restarts
A cloud version of Aurora MySQL has added support for the buffer pool to survive restarts of the database engine. Steve thinks that's an interesting technology, which could be helpful.
2024-01-12
132 reads
Re-Evaluating the Cloud
An update from 37 Signals/Basecamp shows their expatriation from the cloud has been a success. Worth reading before you make too many moves to the cloud.
2024-01-10
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Advice for Business
Some advice from Steve and Sam Altman, whether you work in business or want to build one.
2024-01-08
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Has AI Changed Software Development?
Generative AI is everywhere, but especially in software development. Is it helping us? Steve has a few thoughts.
2024-01-06
110 reads
Projects To Showcase Your Skills
A good way to showcase your skills is by working through and documenting a project and solution. Steve notes today that this is important in today's hiring market and asks for sample projects you might suggest for others.
2024-01-05
500 reads
Fixing Poor Programming Practices
Today Steve has a few stories of how he's fixed poor programming practices and asks you to share your own.
2024-01-03
342 reads
Blogs
Resetting on the AI hype train
By Brian Kelley
There's a great article from MIT Technology Review about resetting on the hype of...
A New Word: Etherness
By Steve Jones
etherness – n. the wistful feeling of looking around a gathering of loved ones,...
Vibe Coding a Login Tracking System
By Steve Jones
A customer was asking about tracking logins and logouts in Redgate Monitor. We don’t...
Forums
The Microsoft SQL Year in Review
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T-SQL in SQL Server 2025: The || Operator
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Your Value from a Conference
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Question of the Day
UNISTR Basics
What does this code return in SQL Server 2025+? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
SELECT UNISTR('Hello 4E16754C') AS 'A Classic';
A: 
B: 
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