Some 3rd party libraries and applications are known to be vulnerable to SQL Injection attacks (and other means of attack).

One of the great things about putting apps in Docker containers...

I worked for a company that used to hire senior developers because it was easier to hire at that level than go through the bureaucratic hell of hiring a junior...

One of the things I have to do as a principal data engineer is to help those under me put together career development plans and then find ways to give...

I've known about observability for a while now, but still struggle to get my head around it. Especially how it is different from monitoring. I look forward to this...

At present we use cloud provider specific solutions for logging, metrics and traces.

Our experience with logging lead us to conclude that a lot more thought needs to go into logging.

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Where I have seen EAVs it has been when someone wanted a flexible schema or something that, in 2024, would suggest a use case for a either a document DB...

It would be interesting to see whatever the modern equivalent of Perfmon and extended events reveals for Jeff.

I've been working with an open-source maintainer to diagnose a strange behaviour that...

I remember SQL Server build 2039 (SP4) where we all had to apply hotfix build 2040 as soon as it came out.  I can't remember exactly what the...

I remember SQL Server build 2039 (SP4) where we all had to apply hotfix build 2040 as soon as it came out.  I can't remember exactly what the problem was...

I think we should keep in mind what the upgrade path looks like.  Upgrades between X and X+1 I would expect to be relatively painless.

Upgrades from X that skip a...

Years ago, deployments to production had to be done out-of-hours.  We planned and rehearsed these meticulously and for the majority went well, maybe minor hiccups.  We were given a start...

For much of my career the IT department has been a slave with many masters. IT had no representation in senior management. The best you could hopeful was being an...

In the UK a house has to be built in compliance with building regulations. Other structures are covered by regulations and strict codes of conduct.

My son is an engineer maintaining...

I'm nearing the end of my career. I feel that it is the way my top 3 are interlinked that give me headaches.

One of my big 3 is keeping up...

Rod, your Federal Funds app in the cloud scenario needs exploring.

• What is the data volume?
• What is the rate of change in the data?
• How many users of the...