There and pros and cons to building a monitoring system versus purchasing one: in other words, the ROI of build vs. buy. In this blog post, Grant Fritchey discusses when you should build, and when you should buy.
2022-09-14
This article continues looking at python code in Power BI to produce charts.
2022-09-12
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Learn how to use the system function, FILEPROPERTY(), to get information about your database in T-SQL.
2022-09-09
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This article covers how to create multi-chart visualizations in Excel using data from SQL Server.
2022-09-09
Rollback scripts are designed to allow us to recover safely from a failed deployment that leaves the database in an indeterminate state. They must check exactly what needs to be reverted before doing so. If you work with an RDBMS that cannot support transaction DDL rollback they are vital. This article proposes a strategy where you create and test a rollback file, at the same time as the forward migration, and reuse it as a Flyway undo script.
2022-09-09
Learn how you can set up and use Ledger tables in an Azure SQL Database to verify the integrity of your database changes.
2022-09-07
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In this tip, we cover how to use the GENERATE_SERIES function to expand a range of dates into rows
2022-09-07
Use SELECT statements to query a MySQL database. In this article, Robert Sheldon explains how.
2022-09-07
Many people have used a "Numbers" or "Tally" table without really knowing what it does. This is an introduction as to how a Tally table replaces a loop.
2022-09-05 (first published: 2008-05-07)
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A generic way of exporting, deleting and loading data, for database development work. It uses Flyway Teams, a PowerShell framework, JSON files for storage and a table manifest to define the correct order of dependency for each task. It should help a team maintain datasets between database versions, as well as to switch between the datasets required to support different types of testing.
2022-09-05
By Chris Yates
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