Tag Archives: deployment

Are Indexes Actually Changes to the System?

Posted on October 2, 2018 by way0utwest

I haven’t thought about this in some time, but Brent Ozar raises an interesting question: should index changes require change control? I’ve worked in an organization that didn’t consider an index change to be an item that was presented as an … Continue reading →

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Dark Reads During a Migration

Posted on September 17, 2018 by way0utwest

I caught a post from the Slack Engineering team titled: Re-architecting Slack’s Workspace Preferences: How to Move to an EAV Model to Support Scalability. In the post, an engineering intern describes the move from a blob table (actually a table storing … Continue reading →

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Republish: Release Wednesday

Posted on June 20, 2018 by way0utwest

In the UK getting ready for SQL in the City, so Release Wednesday being republished.

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Shipping Database Changes–T-SQL Tuesday #90

Posted on May 9, 2017 by way0utwest

This is a good T-SQL Tuesday topic from James Anderson: shipping database changes. It’s especially poignant for me since I talk and present often on this topic. Much of my work at Redgate involves helping people implement DevOps for Databases, … Continue reading →

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