As I have to work with a number of different DB platforms I use Aquafold DataStudio.  It has the ability to act as an SSH client as well.

I took some...

On the top of every Confluence document I ever write there is a small 2x2 table

• Last Reviewed: The date of review
• Last Reviewer: The hyperlinked name of the reviewer

This...

I feel it is important to understand why the gates exist and just as importantly to determine if the gate can be replaced by a better mechanism.  Test driven development...

I look at what I am saving during lockdown

• £80/week commuting
• Wear and tear on the car.  Mileage down from 25,000/year to a few hundred.
• Not wearing out clothing usually...

I got my Garmin because I got sick of my phone not recording what I was doing on Strava.  To Jeff's point I found that Strava was reducing my enjoyment...

If you halve the number of incidents then you have more than halved the negative impact of those incidents.

When an incident is discovered it has to be logged, diagnosed, prioritised...

I was very sceptical about data in the cloud, mainly because the early software implementations I saw were very much based on functional requirements with scant concern for non-functional requirements...

There's so much in software that seems to be in the way of achieving an end goal.

I can sit in almost any car and know that the right pedal is...

There's a bloody mindedness in software that is hell bent on doing things differently just on principle. Apple uses window controls on the top left, Windows on the top right....

I had a friend who was a UX specialist. He used to spend days with the real users of the system, simplifying things, getting it to the stage when it's...

I used to work for a company specialising in delivering AAA rated information websites. Accessibility wasn't difficult, it was an attention to detail thing. A lot of our work was...

One of the reasons I like Python is that one of its design goals is readability.

I've always found SQL to be highly readable too.

I really took Bob Martin's Clean Code...

We've used miro.com as a whiteboard and I believe this can be licensed as an app for use with teams.

With any cloud based resource make sure you have the privacy...

I am no longer a DBA.  Depending on how you define the role I probably never was.

I think my role has mainly be that of a data engineer with a...

I was fortunate in that the operations team at Moneysupermarket had put in a huge amount of work pre-COVID to ensure that remote working was well supported and that we...