A major outage from Atlassian because of a bad script has Steve thinking about the challenges of recovering from mistakes. When we are making changes to portions of our data and we need to plan for mistakes to occur and ensure we can restore the data.
2022-04-22
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When do you choose to use one tool or language over another. Steve discussed T-SQL vs. PowerShell.
2022-04-20
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We used to work in offices, now we work at home. Do we need a third space? Steve does.
2022-04-18
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This week I noticed a number of changes in the Azure platform from their change feed. Actually, every week has a crazy number of changes across the entire platform, but this week a number of these were related to data and databases. That isn't always the case, but I saw some interesting items. We have […]
2022-04-16
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Many of us have spent time looking through manuals or the documentation for some software or product. I know I'm on the MS docs site regularly for work, and there is no shortage of times I've used various manuals to help me fix something around the house. We usually use a manual when we want […]
2022-04-15
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Charts and graphs need a scale to be meaningful. When to include zero in your scale is a question that is more complicated than Steve expected.
2022-04-13
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A developer has some harsh things to see as he leaves the MySQL team. Is he right?
2022-04-11
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Some organizations have policies in place to make sure that everything in their IT infrastructure is documented. There are runbooks, procedures, wikis, diagrams, charts, code comments, and more to make sure that knowledge is available if an employee leaves or when disaster strikes. Not only does the documentation exist, but it’s also organized and easy […]
2022-04-09
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A backlog is important for software development, and Steve has a few thoughts on how to add things to the backlog.
2022-04-08
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Having a known and documented incident response plan is important these days, as more and more companies are having security incidents.
2022-04-06
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