People have their religions about the “right” way to do branching. Unfortunately, the real world is rarely that simple. There is the “always develop on main” tribe, who attest that branches are evil and anything other than working on main means you aren’t doing continuous integration, which makes you evil. There is the “do all your work on branches” tribe,…
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Three People Who Made a Difference
This blog post is part of T-SQL Tuesday #96 – Three People Who Made a Difference, hosted by Ewald Cress. T-SQL Tuesday is an online blog party started by Adam Mechanic and you are invited to join in. A record of every previous T-SQL Tuesday is maintained by Steve Jones. Chris O’Dell (book|t) My very first speaking experience was a bit of…
Managing Artifacts with the Redgate Create Release step template from the Octopus Deploy Library
When I quit my job at Redgate to be a consultant I thought I’d have more time to blog. Boy was that naive! It turns out running your own company is a bit of a time sink. Anyway, I thought it was about time I wrote a proper technical blog post. But I’ll keep it quick. I’ve got to get…
Don’t be a brick in the wall – Part 3
AKA – “Another post-it on the wall” So… This happened. A few of my friends put on the first SQL Saturday in Southampton which, as it happened, was the last UK SQL Saturday of the year. I thought I’d try something a bit fun and a bit different while surrounded by a bunch of my #SQLfamily friends. I’m not gonna…
Critiquing two different approaches to delivering databases: Migrations vs state
tl;dr Some argue that thinking about databases purely in terms of migrations provides repeatability and reliable deployments. Others argue that working declaratively, treating the database state as code, is a better development experience providing immutability, reliable testing and greater productivity. Most people have a strong opinion – not enough people discuss the relative pros and cons in a balanced way.…
Getting really excited about NDC 2015…
Next week I’m going back to NDC Oslo. It was a great experience last year and it inspired a couple of blog posts. Two things I learned at NDC Oslo 2014 Woodland creature story sizing in practice So I’m going back, and this time I’m delivering two sessions The first is one I’ve given a few times before but, based…