Merry Christmas 2023

Merry Christmas from Steve in 2023.

Santa Fun

A New Word: the whipgraft delusion

whipgraft delusion – n. the phenomenon in which you catch your reflection in the mirror and get the sense that you’re peering into the eyes of a strange, as...

Building CyberSecurity Skills with an Advent Challenge

Steve has been doing a cybersecurity advent challenge and has found it to be interesting, fun, and career building.

Executing One Line in VSCode–#SQLNewBlogger

I wrote about arrays in PowerShell last week, but I realized one of the things I did while experimenting was look up how to run code a line at...

Friday Flyway Tips–Above Target Migrations

Recently I was working with Flyway Desktop (FWD) and practicing deploying certain migrations and not others. I don’t recommend this, but a customer was doing this and I wanted...

The PowerShell Array Removal

Parameter Defaults

AI In the Nov 2023 Enterprise

An OReilly Radar report on AI has some interesting data to Steve. Read what he thinks about the state of this technology in 2023.

Migrations are Worth the Effort

Steve prefers database migrations as a way of making changes to a database, though he knows they are hard. He gives a few reasons to choose them.