Democratizing the Microsoft MVP Award
Tony Davis believes that it's time for a little more openness and democracy in the MVP award. In short, it's time to introduce community voting.
2010-02-08
137 reads
Editorials
Measures and Rules
Today we have a guest editorial from Grant Fritchey that discusses the idea of rules based on certain types of measurements. Are they worth following? Or do we need to develop our own measures.
2010-02-08
369 reads
What Do You Include in Your Database Maintenance Plans?
A guest editorial from Brad McGeHee today talks about maintenance plans and his new book.
2010-02-04
580 reads
Too Good to be True? The Story Behind SQL Search
A guest editorial today from Simon Galbraith, founder of Red Gate Software talking about SQL Search, a new product that was developed in an interesting way.
2010-02-03
346 reads
Coding By The Sea
An interesting experiment at Red Gate, Coding By the Sea, produced results, and Steve Jones thinks this could be a great idea for other companies.
2010-02-02
162 reads
Get In a Line
Steve Jones talks a little about disk alignment for your SQL Server instances. This is something that you might to check on your systems and see if you can improve performance.
2010-02-01
142 reads
Keeping It All In Memory
With the release of an in-memory database from Sybase, is it time for SQL Server to join the fray?
2010-02-01
320 reads
Rotating Keys
This Friday's poll deals with security. Steve Jones asks how often you might rotate those encryption keys to ensure that your systems are secure.
2010-01-29
148 reads
Arrogance Has No Place in Security
Arrogance has no place in assessing threats and attempting to build security to mitigate them.
2010-01-28
123 reads
The Dying Administrator
Is the SAN administrator dying out as a job? Steve Jones comments on an article that suggests it might be.
2010-01-27
189 reads
Blogs
Flyway Tips: AI Deployment Script Descriptions
By Steve Jones
With the AI push being everywhere, Redgate is no exception. We’ve been getting requests,...
A New Word: Fawtle
By Steve Jones
fawtle – n. a weird little flaw built into your partner that somehow only...
Post-quantum key exchange – Insurance policy for your packets
AWS recently added support for Post-Quantum Key Exchange for TLS in Application Load Balancer...
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Question of the Day
Encoding URLs
I have this data in a table:
CREATE TABLE Response ( ResponseID INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT ResponsePK PRIMARY KEY , ResponseVal VARBINARY(5000) ) GOIf I want to get a value from this table that I can add to a URL in a browser, which of these code items produces a result I can use? See possible answers