Microsoft, Think DevOps First
Steve has a few issues with the design of the Power BI Service and their format for storing reports.
2019-06-22
224 reads
software development
Building or Buying Analytics
One of the decisions that I've been involved with at the beginning of every software project is whether to buy software to solve the problem or build our own. This might be a quick "is there software anyone knows about to do this?" query, or an in-depth review of the marketplace or something in between. […]
2019-06-08
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The Change Failure Rate
The number of times that you have a failure when deploying changes is a good metric to watch.
2019-06-03
277 reads
Enhancing your database development using coding standards
Development and IT departments face increasing demands to deliver changes faster, often with increasing complexity and less tolerance for downtime, and without a corresponding growth in team size to...
2019-05-20
Paying down technical debt
One of the cool things that I do as an Evangelist at Redgate is to periodically visit company headquarters in Cambridge. The other Evangelists and I get to meet...
2019-05-07
Really Important Software
Software often controls hardware, which can make it the critical part of a system. That's something we should be learning from the Boeing 737-Max crashes.
2019-05-06
222 reads
Can Azure Stack Reduce Software Development Costs?
Azure Stack provides a hybrid cloud infrastructure platform. Steve wonders if this really helps reduce software development costs.
2019-04-24
144 reads
Excellent Analysis of the Boeing 737 MAX Software Problems
This is the best analysis of the software causes of the Boeing 737 MAX disasters that I have read. Technically this is safety and not security; there was no...
2019-04-22
Building a Database Engine
Someone tried to build a database engine from scratch. While not something Steve wants to do, it's an interesting exercise.
2019-04-15
349 reads
Somebody forgot to upgrade: Flights delayed, cancelled by GPS rollover
Date bug on unpatched Honeywell gear likely cause of 777, 787 flight cancellations.
2019-04-09
Blogs
Getting Started with SQL Prompt 10
By Steve Jones
This week we released SQL Prompt 10, which is an exciting milestone for us....
Power Platform Quick Tips – Episode 01: Fixing Power BI Column Sorting
By Devin-Knight
Check out this new series that I’ve started on Power Platform Quick Tips. This...
The curious case of CHAR(0)
Over the years I’ve seen quite a few strange things with SQL Server. This...
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