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Advice I Like: Transactions and Relationships

Life gets better as you replace transactions with relationships. – from Excellent Advice for Living This is incredible advice. I think that much of the complaints about the US from the rest of the world is how transactional we are. … Continue reading

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The End of Azure Data Studio

I don’t know how many of you will be disappointed or impacted by this, but Azure Data Studio (ADS) is being retired, as of 6 Feb, 2025. It will be supported for a little over a year, until 28 Feb, … Continue reading

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Adding Manual Relationships Between Tables in the TDM Subsetter

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

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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