Monthly Archives: June 2019

Practice Those Scripts

Posted on June 21, 2019 by way0utwest

I’ve written lots of scripts that were deployed to production. I’ve often had another set of eyes look them over, and still, we made mistakes. In fact, a recent Salesforce outage was blamed on a poorly written database script that … Continue reading →

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Technology Flows Downstream

Posted on June 20, 2019 by way0utwest

A few years ago, I was listening a session on Azure SQL Data Warehouse at an event. At the time, one of the features I found fascinating was the separation of the storage from the compute portions of the service. … Continue reading →

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Just a Week to SQL Sat Pensacola

Posted on June 20, 2019 by way0utwest

One of my favorite events, in a wonderful place to spend the weekend. I’ve been to Pensacola a few times (3?), including a couple times with my daughter. It’s always a fun weekend with Karla, Rodney, Ed, and the other … Continue reading →

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An Alert Philosophy

Posted on June 19, 2019 by way0utwest

Many of you reading this will be responsible in some way for managing a system. This might be a test/development system or a production one, but often you want to know how well the system is working. Or maybe you … Continue reading →

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