Using the Lightweight Tools

This week Steve is interested in whether the newer lightweight environments, like VS Code and Azure Data Studio, are capturing your interest.

A New Word: Slipfast

slipfast adj. longing to disappear completely; to melt into a crowd and become invisible, so you can take in the world without having to take part in it –...

Blogging for the Tech Professional at Denver Dev Days

For those that attended my talk at Denver Dev Days, here are the slides: BloggingFortheTechPro.pptx A couple interesting questions that I need to add to the deck. What do...

Getting AI Written Unit Tests

As a part of my AI experiments, I decided to ask CoPilot to write some unit tests. Here is what happened. The Prompt To get started, you enter a...

Secure Enclave Attestation

Stacked Bar Charts vs. Line Graphs–Which is Better?

I ran across an interesting post from Rita Fainshtein that looked at the different types of graphs for a set of data. I thought that was interesting, so I...

What's Your Job?

Today Steve asks for the tasks, skills, and knowledge needed to do your job.

Creating Test Data

This editorial was originally published on Jan 9, 2020. It is being re-run as Steve is out of town. Test data is hard to come by, and I agree with Brent Ozar: " I get so frustrated when I hear trainers/presenters/bloggers/idealists talk about how developers should be using purpose-built-from-scratch data sets with no real customer […]

Max Managed Instance CPUs

How Many Days Can You Survive?

A disaster in LA affected many companies, some of which were innocent bystanders to the event. Steve talks about the need to have some plans in place.