Your Computer Science Education

Steve wants to know how and what you learned about computing, as well as what was missing.

5 Ways to Spend Your 2024 Learning and Development Budget in the US

Not many data professionals get a personal Learning and Development (L&D) budget that we can use at our discretion. This is something I encourage you to negotiate when you are considering a job or at your annual review. We all need to learn and a budget signifies your boss cares about you.

Back to Syracuse for SQL Saturday

Syracuse is having their first SQL Saturday on Sept 7, 2024. I’ll be there and hope to see you there as well. If you’re anywhere close, come on over...

Concatenating Strings

Grouping by Object Type in SQL Compare

A customer recently was asking about grouping objects by type to see all the differences in two databases for one set of objects, like all stored procedures. This post...

A Lack of Architecture and Planning

Today Steve talks about how we end up with software systems that don't appear to be well engineered.

Monday Monitor Tips- Enabling Index Tracking in Redgate Monitor

There is a new index feature in Redgate Monitor, but it’s disabled by default. This post shows how to enable things. This is part of a series of posts...

Monday Monitor Tips: Changing the Fragmentation Alert

I had a customer that was concerned about the fragmentation alert for indexes and wanted to know how to change it. This post discusses the change. This is part...

Trigger Ordering I

SQL Saturday Denver 2024 Resources

Here are the resources from my talks today. Best Practices for Seamless Database Deployments PPTX slides Architecting Zero Downtime Deployments git repo:  https://github.com/way0utwest/ZeroDowntime  PPTX slides Some good questions today,...