Monthly Archives: February 2025

Adding Manual Relationships Between Tables in the TDM Subsetter

Posted on February 12, 2025 by way0utwest

I wrote about getting the Redgate Test Data Manager set up in 10 minutes before, and a follow up post on using your own backup. One of the things I didn’t show from my own database was that it had … Continue reading →

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Creating a GitHub Actions Self-Hosted Runner

Posted on February 10, 2025 by way0utwest

I had to demo the Flyway Autopilot system recently and created a GitHub Actions runner as a part of that. This post documents how this went. First, if you go to the settings in a repo and click the Actions … Continue reading →

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Extended Event Comfort

Posted on February 10, 2025 by way0utwest

I saw an interesting thread recently in the SQL Server Community Slack where someone posted about extended events (XE). They were asking about whether XE would have a problem with a situation. The problem wasn’t so interesting, but a quote … Continue reading →

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No End to Programmers

Posted on February 8, 2025 by way0utwest

There’s an interesting piece at O’Reilly this week titled The End of Programming as We Know It. That’s actually a good title, but it doesn’t mean the end to programmers, developers, software engineers, of whatever people call themselves. The piece … Continue reading →

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