Category Archives: Editorial

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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Building a Data Center

Posted on February 5, 2025 by way0utwest

Most of you reading this have likely seen a data center, and maybe sat in one while connecting to a database, but how many of you have had to try and do some of the work to set one up? … Continue reading →

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