Category Archives: Editorial

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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Highly Skilled

Posted on June 19, 2023 by way0utwest

The world of work has been changing quite a bit over the last few years. The pandemic appeared to be a boon to technology workers, both by allowing us to work remotely, but also taking advantage of our skills to … Continue reading →

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Actively Choosing Compatibility

Posted on June 14, 2023 by way0utwest

SQL Server databases have had a compatibility level for a long time. This is a setting that enables the database to process code as if it were a particular version. The levels go from 80 (SQL Server 2000) to 160 … Continue reading →

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