The Dangers of Dependencies

Many of us working with databases know the problems of a single point of failure. We build HA/DR technologies into a lot of systems precisely because many of us know if the database goes down, a lot of stuff goes down. Broken software is easier to fix and rollback, but a broken database can be a much bigger problems. We also know an overloaded server doesn't handle a workload well, hence our quest for well-written SQL code, but we often lose that battle with developers. Read the rest of The Dangers of Dependencies

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The Dangers of Dependencies is an episode from voiceofthedba's podcast by Steve Jones.

This episode is 02:51 long.

This episode was published on May 5, 2026.

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