No Backdoors

Governments want backdoors built into encryption software, which Steve thinks is a bad idea.

Small Data SF 2024

I have often made an effort to attend conferences in the past to grow my career. Even today, when I speak at a conference, I’ll try to go to...

A New Word: Mottleheaded

mottleheaded – adj. feeling uneasy when socializing with odd combinations of friend and family, or friends and colleagues, or colleagues and family – mixing a medley of ingredients that...

Bad Stored Procedures

Stored procedures can be poorly written, but Steve prefers them over embedded code.

Disable All the Indexes

Redgate Clone Graduating Images

I wanted my own custom image in our internal Redgate Clone cluster, so I decided to make one. This is an overview of how this works. This is a...

Concat Addition

When Do We Worry About Scalability?

Steve has a few thoughts on the tradeoff between getting work done quickly and producing well performing code.

Technology and Privacy

Is data privacy becoming less or more of a problem?

Trigger Order III