/tags/data/ Recent content in data on Further Heitz Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Kelly Heitz Fri, 12 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /post/favorite-talks/ Fri, 12 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /post/favorite-talks/ I watch a lot of tech talks. These are my favorite that I’ve watched recently, with what I love about them and keep returning to for inspiration or clarity. Teamwork & Leadership Being Glue - Tanya Reilly Confession/boast: the nicest feedback I ever got from another developer was that I’m “like slime”. By that this person clarified they meant I’m good at filling the gaps of a project to move things forward. /post/tricky-triggers/ Wed, 06 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /post/tricky-triggers/ The situation A little while ago, I was faced with a database server that had run out of storage. It had been out in the world for awhile, and no one was watching it particularly closely. It was running on a deprecated version of SQL Server Express that limited it to 4gb per database. I created a new instance of the database with the same schema in an upgraded version with cloud support for scaling and started loading and testing it, while manually babysitting the original one to clear out data often enough to keep the application up.