I recently realized that I’m in the early stages of burnout.
This isn’t an unfamiliar place for me, but it is new for me to recognize the early signs of burnout in myself before it becomes a full-fledged disaster. This time, I’m thinking about how I got here, and making an explicit plan to change course.
In hope of helping someone else out there, I thought some public journaling might be in order.
One of the cool things that I do as an Evangelist at Redgate is to periodically visit company headquarters in Cambridge.
The other Evangelists and I get to meet with every software developer, product manager, and UX designer at Redgate over a series of meetings. We talk about features that teams have released lately and what teams are looking at doing in the near future. We get to give feedback based on what we hear from the community and from folks in the sales process. We also get to share what we think teams should work on.
Today I got a bit closer to a meaningful definition of automation, as it applies to the software development process. I’ve been turning this concept over in my head for a while, which is partly related to the dreaded question of licensing.
I got a question recently about a panel discussion on Database Development Disasters at SQL in the City Streamed. I had framed a question as, “how fast should development go without load or performance testing?”
I’m excited to be teaching a full day session with Steve Jones at the SQL PASS Summit on Tuesday, November 5, in Seattle.
Steve and I will be discussing proven patterns to version and deploy changes successfully.
Read more about this precon session, or check out the video below where I give a brief overview of what Steve and I will cover.
Calling all Database Administrators, Developers, Analysts, Consultants, and Managers: Redgate has a survey open asking how you monitor your SQL Servers.
This morning, I received the following question from a user:
Could you please clarify SQLServer “Data Row” size: If I run the script below on SQL Server 2012, then Slot(row) Size is 710 bytes if I run the same script against SQL Server 2016 and above, then Slot(row) Size is 724 bytes.
They then provided a script which creates and inserts a few rows into a sample table, runs the DBCC IND command to find a list of pages for the sample table, then uses the DBCC PAGE command to examine the page.
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