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Impactful Sessions I’ve Seen: T-SQL Tuesday #196

Posted on April 14, 2026 by way0utwest

This month I’m thrilled that Steve Hughes is hosting. I’ve read this Data on Wheels blog for a long time and I appreciate all that he does, especially given his struggles with ALS. I kicked myself a few times for … Continue reading →

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Poor Names

Posted on April 13, 2026 by way0utwest

It’s always interesting to me when I give product feedback to engineers at Redgate on their demos. Quite often they’ve built a feature that uses AdventureWorks or Pagila (PostgreSQL) or some other well known schema to evaluate how their particular … Continue reading →

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Changing the Cardinality of a FK in Redgate Data Modeler

Posted on April 13, 2026 by way0utwest

One of the things a customer asked recently about Redgate Data Modeler was how to adjust a FK constraint between two tables. The tool seemed to makes this  easy, and this post will show you how. This is part of … Continue reading →

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Acting with Confidence

Posted on April 10, 2026 by way0utwest

Recently, I saw a graph about making decisions that showed the impact of both reversibility and consequences. Here is an example of such a graph and how one might approach decisions. If things are easily reversible or have a low … Continue reading →

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