Is Rolling Back The Same as Failing?
When you must rollback a deployment of changes, is that a failure of the process? The development effort? Or something else?
2025-10-08 (first published: 2014-03-04)
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When you must rollback a deployment of changes, is that a failure of the process? The development effort? Or something else?
2025-10-08 (first published: 2014-03-04)
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Today we have a guest editorial where Andy Warren asks you if you know how to ask for things at work. Many IT works struggle to ask for resources, but read on to understand how Andy might help you get more done at your job.
2024-01-29
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How do you determine if you're at the top of your profession? Andy Warren has a few thoughts today.
2024-01-19
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Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren as Steve Jones is on vacation. Today Andy looks at the ways we can cope when we have been working too much.
2023-09-13 (first published: 2012-02-16)
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Most of us want more autonomy at work, but it isn't given out without effort. Today Andy Warren has a few thoughts on how to get more freedom from your boss.
2023-07-24
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2023-05-12 (first published: 2017-06-09)
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A guest editorial from Andy Warren that looks at annual training to try and improve security.
2023-03-17 (first published: 2015-08-21)
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2023-01-16 (first published: 2015-06-26)
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A guest editorial from Andy Warren looking at the unlimited amount of vacation time from his company.
2022-08-31 (first published: 2017-07-12)
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2022-08-10 (first published: 2017-08-09)
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By Steve Jones
I wrote earlier this week about the SQL MCP Server using the Data API...
By Brian Kelley
Yesterday, July 27, 2026, Microsoft announced a new cybersecurity effort called Project Perception. Included...
By Steve Jones
If you’ve wanted a SQL Server MCP server for your databases, it’s available. The...
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CREATE SYMMETRIC KEY MySymmetricKey WITH ALGORITHM = AES_256, KEY_SOURCE = 'My secret key source passphrase', IDENTITY_VALUE = 'My secret identity value' ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD = 'S&perS#cretP@ssword7'; GOSee possible answers