Tag Archives: software development

Idempotent

Posted on May 6, 2015 by way0utwest

I ran into the word idempotent in the Stairway to Integration Services. I had heard the word, but I hadn’t really considered how important it can be for a DBA or developer until that time. It’s a term used in computer science, … Continue reading →

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Dig Out the Root Cause

Posted on April 28, 2015 by way0utwest

Early in my career in technology, I worked as a system administrator on a Novell network. Periodically we’d have crashes of servers on our network, or application failures, and while we understood that sometimes these were caused by transient errors, … Continue reading →

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Code Reviews

Posted on April 24, 2015 by way0utwest

When I first started to be paid money to write software, I worked on my own. I had to test my own code, decide when it could be deployed, and make the decision to deploy it. I had to notify … Continue reading →

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Embrace Stored Procedures

Posted on April 20, 2015 by way0utwest

I’ve read a lot of pieces on stored procedures. Most of the articles were for using stored procedures, quite a few were against their use, and a handful with extreme opinions. This piece from Rob Conery, while perhaps NSFW, is one … Continue reading →

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