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
731 reads
software development
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
155 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
353 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
Quality-Driven Software Development
While software is among the most widely used products in human history, it also has one of the highest failure rates due to poor quality. In this article, Cynthia Dzikiti explains how quality should be part of all aspects of the software lifecycle.
2018-03-05
2,482 reads
The right way to approach a legacy code base
Andrea Angella shares what he learned from attending Michael Feather's workshop on working effectively with legacy code.
2017-04-20
4,251 reads
Blogs
Creating a New Sequence–#SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I wrote about sequences in an editorial recently and decided to start using them....
An All Star Lineup for EightKB
By Steve Jones
An online conference is coming on June 17, 2020 that is full of high...
How should I store currency values in SQL Server?
On Twitter, Michael Dyrynda writes: ?? Never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever...
Forums
Explanation of Page Splits
Q1 -- I have read quite a few articles on page splits and am...
Script error
I am trying to monitor the sql services on couple of instances and found...
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