Monthly Archives: April 2019

Lengthen a Primary Key–#SQLNewBlogger

Posted on April 17, 2019 by way0utwest

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. I saw a post recently where someone needed to increase the size of a PK and was getting a … Continue reading →

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Capturing the Application Time

Posted on April 16, 2019 by way0utwest

I’ve always thought that any times we recorded in a row were related to the actual data itself. Almost all of the time I’ve built software, we’ve assumed that the time a row is written or updated is the time … Continue reading →

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Building a Database Engine

Posted on April 15, 2019 by way0utwest

I never wrote a database engine, unless you count writing code to read, write, and update flat files. I remember doing that early in my life with a friend as we tried to build our fantasy baseball game system. We … Continue reading →

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Generating an SSH key on Windows

Posted on April 15, 2019 by way0utwest

I needed an SSH key. First I needed to the WSL subsystem, and once I had that working, I could do the work I needed to do: get an SSH key. There is a utility to help with this on … Continue reading →

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