Moving On After a Technology Fail

After his watch broke, Steve had to get a new tool and isn't sure it was a good move.

A Simple Choice

Is Ransomware Fading?

There is a report that less ransomware ransom is being paid. Perhaps that's a good sign for all of us.

Making a PostgreSQL Backup in a Container

I needed to back up a PostgreSQL database as a part of the repro for an issue I had. I hadn’t ever made a backup of PostgreSQL, so this...

Mixed Backups

The Change Failure Rate

The number of times that you have a failure when deploying changes is a good metric to watch.

Advice I Like: Transactions and Relationships

Life gets better as you replace transactions with relationships. – from Excellent Advice for Living This is incredible advice. I think that much of the complaints about the US...

Choosing to not drive the Tesla

I started a short thread on Twitter/X and Bluesky recently after leaving the Tesla at home recently. A few people asked me about it, so I decided to do...

How Much Linux Do You Need?

With SQL Server on Linux becoming more popular, Steve asks if you think you need to know much about that OS.

Precision and Scale II