Does Management Care About the Database?
Many of the services that businesses use are taken for granted. In an office, management expects electricity, water, and heat just work. If they don’t, then often a crisis is declared and funds are...
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T-SQL Tuesday #170–Abandoned Projects
It’s the first T-SQL Tuesday of the new year. As we move forward, this month’s invitation is neat in that it’s looking back to learn how to move forward. I think while many people do look back, they...
View ArticlePolyglot Persistence
I’ve seen the term polyglot persistence floating around Redgate a bit recently in the marketing department. I haven’t really seen this term anywhere, and I wonder if you have. If you have, drop a...
View ArticleWhat Metrics Do You Collect?
One of the hot terms in software these days is observability. There are a few definitions (Splunk, RadixWeb), but essentially this is the insight into how your software runs and performs using metrics,...
View ArticleSeparate Reads
Recently I was watching a presentation on how to scale performance in your SQL Server environment and one of the suggestions was setting up Availability Groups (AGs) and having read-intent connections...
View ArticleDistributed Monoliths
I was watching a video called Microservices are Technical Debt. In it, the person being interviewed said that a lot of people really have a distributed monolith. That caught my eye since I’ve worked...
View ArticleThe Pervasive Nature of Open Source
This week there was a headline that said “Open Source Software Powers 96% of Modern Applications, New Study Finds” and if you stopped reading there, you might think, hey, it’s not in the apps I work...
View ArticleShorten the Debate
Many of us are faced with choices and decisions constantly in our jobs. How do we approach a problem? What should we do as a team to get the work done? How do we code or manage or test or do something...
View ArticlePatching the Patch
I had to make a few changes to a SQL Saturday event recently. The repo is public, and some of the organizers submit PRs for their changes, and others send me an email/message/text/etc. for a change. In...
View ArticleThe Technical Debt Anchor
I ran across an article on the 7 types of tech debt that can cripple your business, which is a great title. It certainly is one that might scare a lot of CTOs/CIOs/tech management. I am sure that much...
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