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Securing All Your Connections

Posted on June 28, 2023 by way0utwest

I read an interesting blog from the cyber security team at Microsoft, noting you should use TLS for your SQL Server connections. I would assume most professionals know that using TLS and secure protocols across the network is important. I … Continue reading →

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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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