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Designing for Teams
Some years ago, I had to register for my medical benefits with Redgate. My employer had contracted with Anthem for health insurance, and I went to register myself. I found that not only could I not register myself, but there was already an account there with my tax number, and it was under my wife’s account. Many years ago, she had health insurance with Anthem through another employer. Anthem kept her record, which includes my tax ID.…
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Flyway Tips: Object History
It’s a small change, but a handy one. Flyway Desktop (FWD) now includes the object history for different schema changes, so as you are evaluating how your changes might fit in with others, or you are trying to determine where something broke, you can see a list of historical changes. This post looks at checking history quickly in FWD. I’ve been working with Flyway and Flyway Desktop and helping customers improve their database development. This series looks…
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Absolute and Relative References
This week I caught a short tale of Reitse trying to migrate a Power BI report from one Tenant to another in Fabric. It’s something that I would consider a common practice, whether it’s from a dev tenant to a prod one, or from a consultant to a client workspace. Moving things around is what we do in the digital world, whether that’s schema structure, a report, a data export, or something else. This is common. And…
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Get Along
I enjoy listening to Get Along by Kenny Chesney periodically, often smiling to myself. I was reminded of this song recently while talking about careers and the AI impact during VSLive San Diego. On one hand, most of the people I surveyed or chatted with were using AI to accomplish some tasks. However, very few are using it in a way that would eliminate their positions or do the majority of their work. On the third hand,…
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Car Update September 2026
Software is hard. While I love our Lucid Gravity, I realize that they are behind Tesla with software. A few of the weird UX and software engineering decisions they’ve made. This is part of a series of thoughts on cars, just for fun. These are my thoughts and opinions based on my experiences. Confirmations When I got the car, the phone-as-key wasn’t working. I could open an app on my phone and unlock the doors and enable…
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