Tag Archives: software development

DBAs Need to Learn to Develop

Posted on December 13, 2016 by way0utwest

This editorial was originally published on Jan 7, 2014. It is being re-run as Steve is at SQL in the City today. My first exposure to computers was as a child, learning to program in BASIC, Assembler, and Pascal. From … Continue reading →

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DLM Automation–Making a Database Connection

Posted on November 16, 2016 by way0utwest

One of the things I’ve been wanting to do is dig more into the command line automation cmdlets from the Redgate DLM Automation suite. While there are plugins for many build and release systems, I should be able to customize, … Continue reading →

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Held Hostage by the Database

Posted on November 16, 2016 by way0utwest

Your database platform will constrain and limit the flexibility you have in evolving your software. It doesn’t matter which platform you choose, which type of database, or even the format for your data. At some point, you will be dealing … Continue reading →

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Server Hardware or Coffee?

Posted on November 3, 2016 by way0utwest

I actually chuckled out loud in my office recently. I was reading a piece about Expensify and how they learned some lessons from their database architecture over time. It’s a good piece, but at one point the author talks about … Continue reading →

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