Category Archives: Editorial

Moving in the Post Pandemic World

Posted on October 2, 2020 by way0utwest

After a few months of the pandemic lockdown this year, my company gave people the option of leaving the local area where our headquarters is located and moving to another part of England. Actually, since we aren’t planning on anyone … Continue reading →

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DR as a Service

Posted on October 1, 2020 by way0utwest

It’s not the first task when I start a new job, but often as a DBA or developer, I usually ask about Disaster Recovery (DR) plans sometime within the first six months. If I’m a DBA, of course I need … Continue reading →

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The Value of Metadata

Posted on September 30, 2020 by way0utwest

A long time ago, nearly two decades ago, I had a manager come ask me about metadata, specifically, what it was. This was a technical manager, who understood software well but wasn’t a data expert. I tried to explain data … Continue reading →

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Do You Know What the Settings Should Be?

Posted on September 28, 2020 by way0utwest

One of the research areas at the Redgate Foundry is in estate management, trying to better understand how people manage an estate of servers. These could be physical servers you own, VMs in a hosted or cloud situation, or even … Continue reading →

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