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

The PASS Data Community Summit On Guy in a Cube

I’ve known Adam and Patrick for a long time and I’m thrilled with the content they produce on their Guy in a Cube show. It’s a great resource for...

A New Word: Merrenness

merrenness – n. the lulling isolation of driving late at night – floating through the void in an otherworldly hum, trailing red jewels in the darkness, your high beams...

Copilot Experiments: A little PowerShell help

It’s been a little while since I’ve had time to relax a bit and try some AI help. This is another experiment I made. A user on SSC asked...

Friday Flyway Tips: Visualizing Undo Scripts

One nice thing with Flyway Enterprise is that it will automatically generate the undo scripts for migration scripts. However, it used to be that finding these and seeing the...

Looking Forward to the PASS Data Community Summit 2023

Steve takes a moment to think ahead to the PASS Data Community Summit 2023 and what he's looking forward to at the event.