The Technical Debt Anchor
Technical debt is something all of us deal with in our systems, and today Steve has a few thoughts on the impact of debt on database sysstems.
2025-06-25
144 reads
Technical debt is something all of us deal with in our systems, and today Steve has a few thoughts on the impact of debt on database sysstems.
2025-06-25
144 reads
If you have had to fix the thing you just fixed with a fix, you might enjoy today's editorial.
2025-06-16
92 reads
Steve looks back at the Mythical Man Month, a book every software engineer and manager should read.
2025-06-06
96 reads
Today Steve is wondering how you approach coordinating application and database changes. Share which one you deploy first.
2025-04-16
158 reads
Feature flags are being used in modern software development. Steve thinks these should also be a staple of database changes.
2025-04-07
203 reads
Should we build modern software as monoliths or microservices? Or something else? Steve has a few thoughts today.
2025-03-24
127 reads
The idea of chat-oriented programming has led some people to think that AI LLMs will reduce the need for programmers. Steve disagrees.
2025-02-08
124 reads
Choice is good, but too much choice can cause problems in both coffee shops and software teams, as Steve notes today.
2025-01-13
119 reads
We look at problems in different ways and Steve notes this can help or hinder us in software development.
2024-12-09
117 reads
This week there was a headline that said "Open Source Software Powers 96% of Modern Applications, New Study Finds" and if you stopped reading there, you might think, hey, it's not in the apps I work on. Or you might think that because you use OSS software, most of the world also does. Microsoft, Oracle, […]
2024-12-07
82 reads
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For the Question of the day, I am going to go deep, but try to be more clear, as I feel like I didn't give enough info last time, leading folks to guess the wrong answer... :) For today's question: You’re troubleshooting a performance issue on a critical stored procedure. You notice that a previously efficient query now performs a full table scan instead of an index seek. Upon investigating, you find that an NVARCHAR parameter is being compared to a VARCHAR column in the WHERE clause. What is the most likely cause of the query plan regression?
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