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You Need a DBA Pipeline
I work regularly with a number of customers on improving their database change processes. This has been the goal of Redgate’s Database Change Management over the years, helping database systems work more like application software with DevOps principles. The idea is to move quicker and respond better to demands, while providing safety and governance. A database is a stateful machine, which is a challenge to evolve and maintain, but with good data modeling, testing, code analysis, and…
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Keeping Track of my ConEmu CLIs
I use ConEmu for my terminal interface. I’m still on Windows 10 at home, and for consistency’s sake, I run this on my Win11 laptop and the home machine. I love it, and it keeps my windows together, so that I can run multiple command prompts. However. Sometimes I find myself in this situation. I have a bunch of prompts open, and I’m not sure what is what. I know the current one is one of my…
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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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