A New Word: Vulture Shock

vulture shock – n. the nagging sense that no matter how many days you spend in a foreign country, you never quite manage to step foot in it –...

The Incomplete Standby

The Team You Want

Steve asks about your team at work today. What you like, what you need, even what you want to see in those with whom you work.

Future Data Driven is Coming Sept 27 for FREE

The Future Data Driven 2023 virtual conference is coming on September 27. Register today and save a note in your calendar. I have been honored to speak at this...

Creating an Old Symmetric Key

Rogue Colleagues

Can you trust your colleagues? We all want to, but there are always temptations, especially when life gets hard. Steve wonders today how we look at the issues of security inside of our organizations.

Running Flyway from PowerShell–A Gotcha

I ran across an interesting gotcha while trying to run a Flyway command from PowerShell. Specifically, the snapshot command and providing a parameter that is the snapshot.filename parameter. Someone...

Decrypting Stored Procedures The Cumbersome Way

I had a client that was struggling with some encrypted stored procedures. They needed to decrypt them, which I know is a pain in the #@$%@#$@#$#@. I had to...

Labor Day 2023

Happy Labor Day 2023

The Isolation Level Across Databases