Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials Goodbye to the Microsoft Professional Program I’ve worked with Microsoft technologies for over 20 years and, during that time, earned a good income to support my... 21 August 2019 3 min read
Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials Hiding What You Shouldn’t See Back when I was working on a master’s degree, one of our professors told us a story about a colleague... 12 August 2019 3 min read
Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials Measuring the Right Things In my previous career many years ago, I worked at a hospital along with about ten other pharmacists. The department... 23 July 2019 3 min read
Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials SQL Server 2019: Features for the Rest of Us I was talking recently with a friend about features of SQL Server 2019 (still in CTP at the time of... 10 July 2019 4 min read
Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials Keeping Kids Busy During Long School Breaks Now that school is out for the summer, my grandson Thomas is spending quite a bit of time at our... 19 June 2019 3 min read
Editorials Louis Davidson in Editorials Building a Great Technical Team The process of putting together a team of technical people once was largely centered around getting a group of similarly... 12 June 2019 4 min read
Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials Innovation: A Double-edged Sword We humans have been the most successful animals on earth. We’ve accomplished this by changing the environment to suit our... 28 May 2019 3 min read
Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials Why DBAs Must Embrace DevOps A good day for a database administrator (DBA) is a lot like a good airline flight. A lot of excitement... 09 May 2019 3 min read
Editorials Kendra Little in Editorials What is Automation? Today I got a bit closer to a meaningful definition of automation as it applies to the software development process.... 30 April 2019 5 min read
Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials The Future of Medicine If you are a Star Trek fan, you’ve seen the future of medicine, or at least how the writers imagine... 17 April 2019 3 min read
Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials Scary Stories from the Trenches If you have worked with databases long enough, you probably have many frightening stories to tell about things that have... 03 April 2019 3 min read
Editorials Kendra Little in Editorials Why You Shouldn’t Hardcode the Current Database Name in Your Views, Functions, and Stored Procedures “There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things” Phil Karlton I’m terrible at naming... 12 March 2019 4 min read
Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials Celebrating Women in Tech NASA recently named a facility in honour of Katherine Johnson, the mathematician who performed the calculations for space flights in... 04 March 2019 3 min read
Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials Protecting Data During Development In the years before joining Redgate, I was a SQL Server database consultant. I spent a lot of time doing... 20 February 2019 3 min read
Editorials Robert Cain in Editorials What is the purpose of your organization? A lesson in DevOps I’ve been speaking a lot on the topic of DevOps lately, and there’s a question I like to ask. What... 29 January 2019 5 min read
Editorials Kendra Little in Editorials Implementing DevOps Doesn’t Get Rid of Database Administrators I hear from a lot of database administrators who are worried about being automated out of a job. These kinds... 21 January 2019 5 min read
Editorials Arvind Kumar in Editorials The Case for Value-Based Delivery In the past, I was very proud that I’d meticulously defended my projects against scope creep, but I was missing... 08 January 2019 3 min read
Editorials Feodor Georgiev in Editorials The Single Version of the Truth If only there were a ‘single version of the truth’ in data and data analytics. Unfortunately, data and everything that... 20 December 2018 5 min read
Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials Where’s the Bottleneck? Delta Airlines recently announced that they have implemented the first fully biometric terminal in the US, at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International... 12 December 2018 3 min read
Editorials Feodor Georgiev in Editorials Common Sense Data Science Data science is so hip today that everyone is doing it. Everyone is showing off their ‘data science muscles’ by... 28 November 2018 4 min read