Increasingly, as we’re working with people to help out with infrastructure and with setup and considerations for their servers and solutions (wow, that’s a long breath), the trend is about handing off to cloud providers… That’s all well and good, but there’s a bit a devil in the details, so to speak. One of the things that seems to be […]
Author: Stephen Wynkoop
How Do You Keep Up With Releases?
A bit ago, Microsoft changed their methodology for development and release of software. They took a fairly big hit in getting things out as they moved from what I’d call a “version” oriented release, where you cram everything possible in to a release version, to more of a scheduled release where things are in the release that are “right” and […]
Bots, Agents and Databases
Have you started working with (or supporting) automation systems that include bots? Specifically, chat bots? I have to admit I have mixed feelings about this whole thing. I’m that person that calls the cable company and starts with “I’m technical. I’ve done the test stuff. I know what the issue is, please send help.” All of this to avoid the […]
SSWUG Virtual Conference Starts Tomorrow (Tuesday)
If you haven’t had a chance to register yet – here’s the direct link: http://www.sswugvc.com It’ll get you to the site, you can check out the sessions, see what’s up. This is all about the learning. All about the sessions. We have some excellent information and learning for you – and it’s two full days of two tracks. We’ll also […]
Version Control For Your Schemas, Jobs?
There are many different options for managing source code of course. Perhaps one of the most referenced is GitHub and the integration tools and such are very strong for managing your source and application bits and pieces. For some reason, many don’t think about including scripts, table structures, basically all of the things to do with the database, in their […]
Scale-Out vs. Scale-Up as a Cloud Success Indicator
Sometimes, the things that drive the market just sort of creep up on you. Surprising things. We’re all here talking about big data-this, big data-that. Storage management. Performance. All of those things. They’ve traditionally often been all about scaling UP your application (bigger servers, more power, etc.). I know I’ve had the discussion with people many, many times about considerations […]
Do You Disclose Immediately… Or…?
One of the big news items of the day is that Microsoft’s internal database of vulnerabilities was hacked in 2013. That’s a while ago! As I was reading all of the posts talking about how these types of things should immediately be disclosed, and that it applies not only to a hack of systems, but also disclosing vulnerabilities, I found […]
Data Flow and Capacity… and Knowing All The Variables
Data sources are certainly something that should be on nearly everyone’s radar. With more devices, more analysis and more utility coming from information than ever before, it’s pretty obvious that our pendulum associated with being a data professional will have yet more swings in the direction of managing performance as things expand. This post from was interesting as they tried […]
PowerBI, Using that Data, IoT and the Borg
Yesterday Ben posted about where, exactly, the responsibility for security lays. Is it with the DBA? The network team? Is it with the person or team that could have prevented the latest breach? It’s a great question. Make sure you check out the post if you haven’t seen it yet. (Here’s a link) As we continue this revolution into more […]
Why do we do the Virtual Conferences?
While it may seem like an odd question, I actually do get asked this quite often. I mean, while we do work with some sponsors occasionally, the fact is that we’re so focused on the sessions. Not in an obnoxious “aren’t we grand for doing this” way, but in a community way. I really think that information, tips, things we […]