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This year’s Blogging for Programmer Tipmas Event is complete!
Read more: This year’s Blogging for Programmer Tipmas Event is complete!Today I finished up my first 24 videos in my Blogging for Programmers series of posts. I started out calling it vlogmas, but Tipmas definitely fits a lot better. You can access the blogs about them here or go directly to the Youtube playlist here.It was a lot of fun to do this series, and…
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T-SQL Tuesday #193 – A Note to Your Past, and a Warning from Your Future
Read more: T-SQL Tuesday #193 – A Note to Your Past, and a Warning from Your FutureAh, as we near the end of the year, and of course, the end of the year in T-SQL Tuesday terms, the host this month (the wonderful Mike Walsh) asks a couple of really simple, yet complicated questions for us. Saying something inspirational to ourselves, both in the past and the future. Who doesn’t love…
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Feedly Friday – Feeds I Read #14
Read more: Feedly Friday – Feeds I Read #14Feeds I Read Page | Other Feedly Friday Posts Welcome to my continuing series of posts where I am going to highlight one or two feeds I follow in Feedly. Technology feeds only, though I keep up with other things like theme park news in there too. Feedly is an RSS reader that you can…
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Using TRANSLATE in SQL Server instead of REPLACE
Read more: Using TRANSLATE in SQL Server instead of REPLACESo the other day I was doing some data cleanup tasks, trying to format various values in a first name column. Needless to say, not everyone takes the task of giving a first name as sensically as you might imagine. And sense you generally don’t want to stop anyone from having any name they want.…
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Vlogmas 2025 – Writing tips for Programmers
Read more: Vlogmas 2025 – Writing tips for ProgrammersToday kicks of my first attempt to professionally do Vlogmas. 24 videos (26 including this holiday intro\outro!) in 24 days with some of the advice I like to remind myself of every time I sit down at this keyboard and start typing. Now while I am calling them Vlogmas, really it is just the timing…
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New Article: SQL Prompt AI Versus Smart Quotes
Read more: New Article: SQL Prompt AI Versus Smart QuotesThis past week I published my first Product Learning article on the Redgate Site: SQL Prompt AI Versus Smart Quotes SQL Prompt AI can repair certain types of broken SQL almost instantly, saving hours of clean-up time. Just prompt it clearly, check the results are exactly what you intended, and you’re ready to run. I…
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Thankfulness Week!
Read more: Thankfulness Week!In the US this week, we are celebrating Thanksgiving. It also marks the time of the year when we many of us really start celebrating the holidays full steam ahead. This means two things. First, less time to blog. Second, time to be thankful about the people we have in our lives, personally and professionally.…
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Feedly Friday – Feeds I Read #13
Read more: Feedly Friday – Feeds I Read #13Feeds I Read Page | Other Feedly Friday Posts Welcome to my continuing series of posts where I am going to highlight one or two feeds I follow in Feedly. Technology feeds only, though I keep up with other things like theme park news in there too. Feedly is an RSS reader that you can…
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Rejoining Redgate Ambassadors
Read more: Rejoining Redgate AmbassadorsI am excited to be back as a member of the Redgate Ambassadors for 2025 (and hopefully beyond since it is nearing the end of November as I type this!) You can see my profile here. As I moved back into coding at my previous employer, there were two company’s tools it was going to…
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Awesome Use of RegEx in SQL Server – Multiple Filters
Read more: Awesome Use of RegEx in SQL Server – Multiple FiltersSince Microsoft Ignite and PASS Summit is this week, I figured a quick RegEx post was in order. I will be shocked if SQL Server 2025 is not released this week, and with that release comes the feature I am most excited about, RegEx in SQL Server. One of the practical uses of RegEx is…
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