Happy New Year 2024
Happy New Year from Steve, with a reminder to work on your career plan for 2024.
2024-01-01
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Editorials
Being A Bit Less Comfortable in 2024
I hate coming up with ideas for editorials, but my last editorial of the year gives me a very simple topic just staring me in the face: New Year’s Resolutions. Love them or hate them (or it we are honest, a good bit of both,) this end of one year and the start of another […]
2023-12-30
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The 2024 Plan
On the last working day of 2023, Steve says you should think about making a 2024 plan for your career.
2023-12-29
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Some Relief But Still Some Concern
Steve is relieved that he hasn't updated sqlmemorial.org this year, but worries he's missed remembering some of our colleagues.
2023-12-27
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2023-12-25
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A Thrill of Hope
I realize that this isn’t the last Database Weekly editorial of the year – that honor is reserved for Louis Davidson next week. 😊 However, as we approach the end of the year and various holiday celebrations, one of my favorite Christmas carols has been of particular encouragement to me recently. 2023 hasn’t gone exactly […]
2023-12-23
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Building CyberSecurity Skills with an Advent Challenge
Steve has been doing a cybersecurity advent challenge and has found it to be interesting, fun, and career building.
2023-12-22
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AI In the Nov 2023 Enterprise
An OReilly Radar report on AI has some interesting data to Steve. Read what he thinks about the state of this technology in 2023.
2023-12-20
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Migrations are Worth the Effort
Steve prefers database migrations as a way of making changes to a database, though he knows they are hard. He gives a few reasons to choose them.
2023-12-18
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A Thriving Community Lifts All Boats
I'm writing this on the last day of PGConf.EU, sitting here in Prague. I'm looking forward to sitting in several more sessions today, as well as having a few more conversations with the people at the conference. It's been a great event and I'm so happy I've been able to take part. Following the PASS […]
2023-12-16
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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...
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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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