Phil Factor Pseudonymization and the Inference Attack It is surprising that so much can be identified by deduction from data. You may assume that you can safely... 01 August 2017 10 min read
Blogs William Brewer in Blogs The Fast Route from Raw Data to Analysis and Display There are very few real breakthroughs in IT. Most progress in the industry comes from pure effort and attention to... 18 July 2017 3 min read
T-SQL Programming Joe Celko in T-SQL Programming SQL Data Aggregation Aggravation When we have to deal with and store a lot of data, it makes sense to aggregate it so that... 17 July 2017 10 min read
Blogs William Brewer in Blogs Morphing the Monolith Microservices can certainly be made to work well for particular types of applications, but is it relevant to the mainstream?... 05 July 2017 3 min read
Opinion Pieces Michael Sorens in Opinion Pieces Fighting Evil in Your Code: Comments on Comments One of the most glib generalisations you can make about development work is to say that code should be liberally... 28 June 2017 21 min read
Blogs Andrew Clarke in Blogs Working From Home The idea that one can do nothing useful as a developer unless you are in an open plan office is... 20 June 2017 3 min read
Blogs Tony Davis in Blogs To Fly, To Serve, To Fry Your Servers So, the story goes that an Ops engineer walked into a data center with the necessary pass, a cheery wave... 08 June 2017 3 min read
Blogs William Brewer in Blogs WannaCry Over Spilled Data The WannaCry ransomware attack has highlighted a serious problem. If there is negligence in your IT strategy, you are increasingly... 24 May 2017 3 min read
Opinion Pieces William Brewer in Opinion Pieces Personal Data, Privacy, and the GDPR Now that there have been well-publicised examples of the awful consequences of data breaches and data misuse, there is increasing... 10 May 2017 22 min read
Blogs Phil Factor in Blogs The Need for Database DevTest The first and overriding thought of the experienced developer given any new development task is, or should be, ‘How the... 09 May 2017 3 min read
Blogs Tony Davis in Blogs Python in SQL Server Anyone using R in SQL Server employs the procedure sp_execute_external_script, the first parameter of this being the language to use.... 26 April 2017 3 min read
Blogs Tony Davis in Blogs The Oxford Comma and Me Many people in IT, even at Redgate where I work, see the job title “Editor” and think I spend most... 07 April 2017 3 min read
Blogs Tony Davis in Blogs Avoiding the Slide From DevOps to DevOops If you roll out DevOps across an organization before it is culturally prepared for it, you will see warning signs... 27 March 2017 3 min read
Blogs Tony Davis in Blogs Glasnost in IT: Discarding the Old Certainties Three of Redgate’s tools are now part of the 2017 release of Visual Studio Enterprise (as announced last week), as... 13 March 2017 3 min read
Blogs Tony Davis in Blogs Old is the New New: SQL Server 2016 Learns Ancient Auditing Tricks The new temporal tables in SQL Server 2016 are interesting, in that they seem a much better way of storing... 06 March 2017 3 min read
Blogs William Brewer in Blogs The Harsh Reality Behind Big Data Misuse Big Data has its origin in science, but it is now being used commercially to increase the information that organizations... 10 February 2017 4 min read
Blogs Phil Factor in Blogs Metaprogramming Over the history of personal computing, it seems that the best software was written by a team of five or... 02 February 2017 3 min read
Blogs Tony Davis in Blogs Tying Down the Source Code Database source code analysis can flush out weakly-authenticated database users, over-privileged users and roles, or stored procedure code that concatenates... 19 January 2017 2 min read
Blogs Tony Davis in Blogs Bridging the DevOps Divide What’s the main obstacle to implementing a DevOps approach in your organization? In a recent “State of DevOps” survey conducted... 05 January 2017 3 min read
Blogs Simple Talk Editorial Team in Blogs Trouble with TLAs? Our Agony Aunt Advises Dear Marjorie, I try my best to keep up with the latest technology. I even read “IT Trends Monthly” religiously,... 16 December 2016 3 min read
