Category Archives: Editorial

The IT Jobs AI Can’t Do

Posted on August 30, 2023 by way0utwest

This was a provocative title: 6 ITOps Skills That Will Never Be Automated. In a time when AI use is growing quickly and many people fear for their jobs, it’s nice to see someone writing about areas that AI will … Continue reading →

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Power BI and Git

Posted on August 28, 2023 by way0utwest

When Power BI was released, I was working with customers to try and adopt DevOps for their database code. At that time, I thought the Microsoft developers had made an extremely poor decision with the PBIX format in that it … Continue reading →

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Removing Weak Security from SQL Server

Posted on August 25, 2023 by way0utwest

I was checking some arguments in the RESTORE command for SQL Server and saw that the MEDIAPASSWORD option was deprecated and marked as being removed at some point. That made sense, and I assumed that PASSWORD was the option to … Continue reading →

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Shift Right

Posted on August 23, 2023 by way0utwest

Earlier this year I was watching someone present on DevOps and IaaC (Infrastructure as Code). The speaker was showing how they had worked with clients to implement tests and checks that evaluated whether their systems were deployed and the code … Continue reading →

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