Tag Archives: Database Weekly

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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The Pervasive Nature of Open Source

Posted on December 7, 2024 by way0utwest

This week there was a headline that said “Open Source Software Powers 96% of Modern Applications, New Study Finds” and if you stopped reading there, you might think, hey, it’s not in the apps I work on. Or you might … Continue reading →

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Serverless Gets Faster

Posted on October 12, 2024 by way0utwest

When the Azure SQL Database serverless option was introduced, I was a bit disappointed that I couldn’t get the database to pause any sooner than 1 hour. That meant I needed to ensure clients didn’t access the system for an … Continue reading →

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Analyzing Breached Data

Posted on August 17, 2024 by way0utwest

A few of you out there might be data scientists who profile data regularly. Probably a fair number of you do import/export work and learn to check data values, perhaps with counts, distincts, or other aggregates. I don’t know if … Continue reading →

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