Category Archives: Editorial

Unix vs PowerShell

Posted on September 13, 2021 by way0utwest

I saw an article on using awk, sed, and grep on Linux. I used to know how to use those, though I was by no means an expert. However, working with a stream of text with an input and output … Continue reading →

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The State of Data Growth

Posted on September 11, 2021 by way0utwest

About a decade ago I did some presentations on Filestream and Filetable in SQL Server.  These were technologies that Microsoft added with the idea that lots of data would need to be linked to data in a database, but wasn’t … Continue reading →

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New Old Architectures

Posted on September 10, 2021 by way0utwest

Many years ago I was starting in a software development role using dBase and Clipper. I needed to upgrade a DOS based dBase program to Clipper to take advantage of some graphical libraries. Around this time, we were also moving … Continue reading →

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Patterns and Potential Problems

Posted on September 8, 2021 by way0utwest

I saw a post recently from a developer that needed to refactor and rename a table in a live system. The post describes a pattern for doing so and gives the steps taken, though not the actual code. I like … Continue reading →

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