A customer was testing Redgate Data Modeler and complained that it auto-generated PK names. I had to test and discover if I could make things better, and I could. This post shows how.This is part of a series on Redgate Data Modeler.Adding a New EntityI can easily add a new Table to my diagram. I’ll click the New Table icon in the menu.When I click in the design surface, I get a new table.On the right, I see the table properties. I’ll need to fill these in.Let’s change the name and add a few columns to this design. Note that…
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Python has supported type hinting for quite a few versions now, starting way back in 3.5. However, Python itself does not enforce type checking. Instead, you need to use an external tool or IDE. The first and arguably most popular is mypy. Microsoft also has a Python type checker that you can use in VS Code called Pyright, and then there’s the lesser-known Pyrefly type checker and language server. The newest type checker on the block is Astral’s ty, the maker of Ruff. Ty is another super-fast Python utility written in Rust. In this article, you will learn how to switch your project to use ty…