At Stack Overflow, our environment has multiple implementations of a largely – but not 100% – identical schema. (By “schema,” I mostly mean the set of tables within a database.) I sometimes need to retrieve or update data across a large number of sites. Let’s say, pulling or removing information from the Users table, and related tables, across all of our databases.
2023-09-01
Communication can be challenging when we don't work closely with others. Steve draws a comparison with a popular children's show in the US.
2023-08-14
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At Redgate Software, we've been trialing Copilot from GitHub with our developers. I managed to get access for this experiment and have tried a few things, though I'm not sure I've found it very useful. I'll continue to work with Copilot, but for now, I just don't find Copilot AI helping me with the types […]
2023-07-31
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Reviewing Pull Requests (PR) is something that developers should take seriously, but Steve doesn't think this always happens.
2023-07-28
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An interesting approach to schema changes is a creative solution to Steve. He asks if you have other creative solutions you've seen.
2023-07-21
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Steve saw a policy on code usage in software development and wondered how many companies have this.
2023-07-19
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Today Steve talks APIs, which are important in much of software development. He thinks we ought to treat our database schema as part of an API.
2023-05-22
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2023-05-10
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2023-05-08
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2023-05-01
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How can I start SQL Server on Linux in single-user mode to restore the master database?
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