Closing a Symmetric Key

Speaking at SQL Saturday Boston 2023

I’m heading to Boston next week for SQL Saturday Boston 2023. I went to this event last year and I’m glad to be going again. It’s a great event,...

A Reuseable Window

The Need for DevSecOps

DevOps is great, but Steve thinks we need to ensure we include security is a part of what we do when building and deploying software.

A New Word: Ghough

ghough – n. a hollow place in your psyche that can never be filled; a bottomless hunger for more food, more praise, more attention, more affection, more job, more...

A Staffing Disaster

An Azure datacenter had a failure after an incident, partially because they didn't have enough people. Steve notes that staffing is a challenge in many ways.

Backing Up a Restoring Database

Friday Flyway Tips: More Config Options

Working with various Flyway configuration options used to be a pain since they were either CLI parameters or in a text files. We’ve made editing these easier in Flyway...

Creating Two Keys

Running a Service

The way we view our jobs might change how we do them. Steve has some advice on how to think about the work you do.