Steve Jones

My background is I have been working with computers since I was about 12. My first "career" job in this industry was with network administration where I became the local DBA by default. I have also spent lots of time administering Netware and NT networks, developing software, managing smaller IT groups, making lots of coffee, ordering pizza for late nights, etc., etc.

I currently am the editor of SQL Server Central and an advocate/architect at Redgate Software. I am also the President of SQL Saturday, maintain the T-SQL Tuesday monthly party, and remember our colleagues at sqlmemorial.org.

You can find out more about me on my blog (www.voiceofthedba.com) or LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/in/way0utwest)
  • Interests: yoga, reading, biking, snowboarding, volleyball

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Prompt in ADS

Ever since VS Code and Azure Data Studio came out, people have been asking for SQL Prompt to port over. I’ve been right there with you, though unsure of...

2020-01-02 (first published: )

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SQLServerCentral Editorial

Looking Back at the Decade

Today is the last day of 2019, and the last day of the 2010 decade. I'm still somewhat amazed by the fact that we're entering the 2020s and we still don't really have flying cars. We're well past 2001 and 2010, and still not much space exploration, though the growth in computing power and AI/ML […]

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2019-12-31

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Using Prompt AI for a Travel Data Analysis

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I was looking back at my year and decided to see if SQL Prompt...

FinOps for Kubernetes: Leveraging OpenCost, KubeGreen, and Kubecost for Cost Efficiency

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In the era of cloud-native applications, Kubernetes has become the default standard platform for...

2025 Wrapped for Steve

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I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...

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reaching ftp thru winscp but erroring in ssis ftp task connection

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Hi, below i show various results trying to reach our ftp site (a globalscape...

Finding Motivation

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The Last Binary Value of the Year

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The Last Binary Value of the Year

What does this code return? 

SELECT cast(0x2025 AS NVARCHAR(20))
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