Monthly Archives: July 2018

#SQLCareer

Posted on July 5, 2018 by way0utwest

Information Technology is a place that I think could be a very good career for many people. Our working conditions are good, the pay is above average, and we can continue to do this job for most of our lives. … Continue reading →

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Testing BackBlaze Restores

Posted on July 5, 2018 by way0utwest

The most important thing for a data guy is having a way to restore data. If security, performance, etc. are broken, those can be fixed is we have the data. If we don’t have data, does security matter? It’s important, … Continue reading →

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Updating VSTS to SQL Change Automation

Posted on July 4, 2018 by way0utwest

We (Redgate) released SQL Change Automation a few weeks back. This is the first stage to implementing a combined toolset that works with both state/comparison development and migrations based development. The change updated both our migrations toolset (previously ReadyRoll) and … Continue reading →

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Where’s the schema?

Posted on July 3, 2018 by way0utwest

Across the last few years, I’ve read many articles and listened to quite a few talks that discuss the advantages of NoSQL databases. I’ll admit that I’m often skeptical of the advantages of other datastores overcoming the disadvantages with a … Continue reading →

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