Trigger Order II

A New Word: Flashover

flashover – n. the moment a conversation becomes alive and real, when a spark of rust shorts out the delicate circuits you keep insulated under layers or irony, momentarily...

Friday Flyway Tips: Git Integration in Community Edition

Redgate added Git integration to the free, Community edition of Flyway Desktop. I saw the announcement and decided to make this post to show how this can work for...

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Trying New Technology

Today Steve has a few thoughts about adopting new technologies and the implications for your organization.

A Kafka Introduction

Steve had the chance to learn a bit about Kafka and has a few thoughts today.

Converting Integers

Moving One File Across Git Branches: #SQLNewBlogger

I was working on some branching and merging with a customer and they wanted to move a file from one branch to another without taking the entire commit. I...

Stairway to Database Containers Level 4: Using a Docker Compose File

In the next level of the Stairway to Database Containers, let's learn to use a compose file to specify a number of options for our container.

Big Northwind with AI

As part of my work with Redgate, I wanted to do some testing on our subsetting and masking tools. Subsetting needs a big data set, and while Stack Overflow is big, it's kind of simple. I wanted something a little different. Since our engineers use Northwind to do a lot of demos, I decided to […]