Advice I Like: Apologies

How to apologize: quickly, specifically, sincerely. Don’t ruin an apology with an excuse – from Excellent Advice for Living This is great advice. I remember myself often saying “I’m...

Escaping Like I

Friday Flyway Tips: Chaining Commands for State-based Deployments

One of the cool things I’ve seen with the new Flyway CLI is that I can combine multiple actions together in one call, which can make the process of...

The Types of Changes

Today Steve asks about the type of changes that you make in your databases.

Sparse Column Storage

The Managed Cloud Database Options

You have a number of options for moving your database to the cloud, but Steve has a few things you might want to consider before you do so.

Using Flyway Prepare for State-Based Deployments

One of the neat enhancements made to Flyway was the addition of state-based workflows and tooling. A lot of people have loved SQL Compare or SQL Source Control for...

T-SQL Tuesday #182: Personal Integrity

It’s time for the first T-SQL Tuesday blog of 2025, with an invite from the first non-founder to host a party, Rob Farley. I reached out to Rob and...

Grinding Away: Mary Spender

A few years ago I stumbled on this video and loved it. That led me to Mary’s page and this cover of John Mayer’s Stop This Train: Since then...

Simple(r) Coffee

Choice is good, but too much choice can cause problems in both coffee shops and software teams, as Steve notes today.