Monthly Archives: June 2023

The Four Different Types of Flyway Files

Posted on June 26, 2023 by way0utwest

This is documented, somewhat, but I wanted to put this down for myself, as the I don’t love the docs and they are hard to sort through. Flyway is open source software owned and maintained by Redgate, my employer. There … Continue reading →

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Concurrency Challenges Around Schema Changes

Posted on June 26, 2023 by way0utwest

I saw a great question on Twitter from Frank Pachot, a developer advocate of Yugabyte. He wrote: Without thinking how your preferred database deals with it, what do you expect if: session 1 starts to reads table T session 2 … Continue reading →

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The Best Career Advice

Posted on June 24, 2023 by way0utwest

I don’t know that I have the best advice, but this month’s T-SQL Tuesday is asking for people to share what they think is the best advice they’ve been given or have for you. I wrote my own piece, where … Continue reading →

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A New Word: Volander

Posted on June 23, 2023 by way0utwest

volander: n. the ethereal feeling of looking down at the world through an airplane window, able to catch a glimpse of far-flung places you’d never see in person, free to let your mind wander, trying to imagine what they must … Continue reading →

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