Tag Archives: software development

The Master of the Schema

Posted on August 14, 2018 by

“The database … should be the master of the schema”. It’s not often I see an application developer talk about the importance of the database, or at least that the database (and data) are very important to the success of … Continue reading →

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Better Comments

Posted on June 8, 2018 by

I assume most of your comment your code. Well, you probably comment code most of the time. I’d bet your comments have quite a bit of detail. And you do this completely inconsistently. That’s what I’d think, or maybe just … Continue reading →

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Will Coding Be Less Important?

Posted on June 4, 2018 by

How many of you can read Greek? I can decipher the alphabet and pronounce words, but that’s about it. I thought about this after running across an essay that says that coding will eventually be as important to most people as ancient … Continue reading →

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Taking Shortcuts

Posted on April 28, 2018 by

Many of us work in situations where we feel pressure to get work done at a pace that’s faster than we might like to move. In some sense, this is the nature of life, where customers and clients always want … Continue reading →

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New IT Departments

Posted on April 23, 2018 by

I had a friend that used to run an Exchange system. Actually, he was part of a team of four that managed a 50,000+ mailbox system for a very large company. In 2000 or 2001, he told me that his … Continue reading →

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Considering Other Views

Posted on April 12, 2018 by

I love my Pebble 2 watch. It’s simple, the charge lasts for days, and it does what I want out of a device. However, it’s a device that isn’t made anymore, and after a fall, I have a crack in … Continue reading →

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Small Changes and Big Impacts

Posted on March 27, 2018 by

I’ve been doing some work with RLS lately (Row-Level Security). I think this is one of the most useful features added in SQL Server 2016, and I wish it had been available earlier in my career. I’ve had the need … Continue reading →

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Great Developers Use Source Control

Posted on March 15, 2018 by

I was rewatching Ike Ellis (b|t) talk on the habits of Great SQL Developers from SQL in the City 2018, and his first item was “Use Source Control“. I happen to agree with Ike, which is why I’m writing this, and I … Continue reading →

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Virtual Data

Posted on February 20, 2018 by

Yesterday I republished an editorial from 2014 for the holiday. The topic was production subsets of data, which has been something that many data professionals have struggled with for years. Many of us have built scripts to delete, change, obfuscate, or alter … Continue reading →

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Customize Software or Process

Posted on January 16, 2018 by

Many of us work with software and often wish that we something was designed differently. I’m sure many of us feel the same way about our database schemas, which is usually even harder to change. In any case, we often … Continue reading →

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