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  • I Don’t Want To Do XX

    Every job is a job on some days. I’ve said this to my kids and others I’ve mentored over the years. I’ve probably written that here, and I truly believe it. When you work at a job, some days are bad days. There are always days you don’t want to do the work. There are also likely some days that you dread starting. Whether you work for someone else or run your own business, there will be…


  • The Book of Redgate: Hours

    I have said and written this many times: Redgate Software is the type of company I’d want to build if I founded another company. It’s a great place, and one of the things I appreciate is that we value outcomes. One of our values is: . The text on the next page continues the sentence: What you achieve is more important than how long it takes. Building software is challenging, and building software that can be sold…


  • The Cost of Multiple Platforms

    I ran into an interesting post that noted the modern data platform can have a bunch of different systems underlying it. The example might be that your “software” could use PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Clickhouse, and something NewSQL (Spanner, CockroachDB, etc,). Some of you might think that’s not reality, but keep in mind that for a lot of your organizations, the “software” is what the customer uses. I’m sure my bank has multiple systems behind the mobile app…


  • PostgreSQL Support in the Data API Builder

    Next week I’m at VS Live in San Diego (register and join me) and one of my talks is on the Data API Builder. I want to show how this gives you REST, GRAPHQL, and MCP access. As a part of the talk, I also wanted to show this working across platforms, so I’m showing this in PostgreSQL as well. I’ve been experimenting this in a few ways, but I decided to see how hard it was…


  • T-SQL Tuesday #202: 100 Hours

    It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again and this is a great prompt to start writing. I might have written about this before, but it’s a story that sticks with me. It’s a memorable one, and it was quite the outage, one that lasted for weeks. Thanks to Marlon for this invite on unforgettable outages.. T-SQL Tuesday is the monthly blog party, and if you want to participate, feel free to write on a blog, Linked In, or…


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