Tag Archives: development

The Types of Changes

Posted on January 17, 2025 by way0utwest

I would guess that most of you reading this piece are database professionals in some sense. Either you work on databases as a developer of some sort (app and/or database) or manage them as a DBA or sysadmin. In working … Continue reading →

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A Test Client for Zero Downtime Deployments

Posted on February 22, 2023 by way0utwest

I’ll be at VS Live in Las Vegas this March to discuss zero downtime deployments. If you want to come and join me for this session, or any of the other great ones, register today and save $500 with the … Continue reading →

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Minimize Typing

Posted on January 20, 2023 by way0utwest

It couldn’t have happened to a worse set of people, and I’m glad it did, but I’ll still take a positive lesson out of this. A hacker sent a typo in a command to a botnet and lost control. That’s … Continue reading →

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The Programming Languages We Use

Posted on January 13, 2023 by way0utwest

Many of you reading this probably work primarily in SQL. Even if you are a developer whose main language is something else, you write a lot of SQL. Even if you have an ORM writing the SQL that goes into … Continue reading →

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