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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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Unreliable Narrators

Posted on February 7, 2025 by way0utwest

I listened to an interview with Grady Booch. If you’ve never heard of him, he has been a software engineer for a long time, developed UML, and worked at IBM and a number of other places. He has devoted his … Continue reading →

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A New Word: Redesis

Posted on February 7, 2025 by way0utwest

redesis – n. a feeling of queasiness while offering someone advice, knowing they might well face a totally different set of constraints and capabilities, any of which might propel them to a wildly different outcome – which makes you wonder … Continue reading →

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