Category Archives: Editorial

Building a Better Profile

Posted on March 31, 2023 by way0utwest

I give talks on branding and managing your career at various events. Often I am helping people to better market and sell themselves if find new opportunities. One area that I talk about for data professionals is the online profile. … Continue reading →

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Being Responsible for Data

Posted on March 29, 2023 by way0utwest

For much of my career, I’ve run SQL Server Central. A large part of the popularity of the site is from the forums, where people can pose questions about their struggles with SQL Server and get answers from the community. … Continue reading →

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Capturing Data Changes

Posted on March 27, 2023 by way0utwest

While working with a customer recently, I saw some code from them that used the OUTPUT and INTO clauses of an UPDATE statement to capture the changes made into another table. In this case, as users updated code strings in … Continue reading →

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How Important is Zero Downtime?

Posted on March 24, 2023 by way0utwest

As I work with more and more customers at Redgate, I see some interesting trends. During the pandemic (and prior), we got a lot of questions on zero downtime and how to achieve database DevOps without causing problems. Those are … Continue reading →

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