Building a SQL Server data dictionary
In this article, Edward Pollack explains the benefits of a SQL Server data dictionary and how to build one.
2021-04-29
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How do you monitor your databases? Take the survey!
Calling data professionals! We want to know how you are monitoring your servers, instances and databases. By taking the 2021 State of Database Monitoring survey, you’ll help us better understand how the community monitor and manage their estates, and the challenges they face. You’ll get exclusive early access to the 2021 State of Database Monitoring report, plus, one lucky winner will receive a $500 Amazon gift card in our prize draw.
2021-04-29
Detecting Database Drift during Flyway Database Development
How to detect database drift prior to running a database migration, so that you can be certain that a database hasn't been subject to any 'uncontrolled' changes that could affect the migration or result in untested changes being deployed to production.
2021-04-28
Five Facts about the SQL Server Resource Database
In this article we cover interesting facts about the hidden resource database in SQL Server and how this is used by SQL Server.
2021-04-28
Identify Profiles Actually In-use to Make Database Mail Migration Efficient
Introduction According to Microsoft, Database Mail is an enterprise solution for sending e-mail messages from the SQL Server Database Engine. Using Database Mail, your database applications can send e-mail messages to users. The messages can contain query results and can also include files from any resource on your network. This article is going to discuss […]
2021-04-27
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How to improve DevOps communication clarity
Communication is at the heart of DevOps, but it can be difficult to achieve. Mike Cuppett explains how to improve DevOps communication clarity.
2021-04-27
An Introduction to Azure Data Explorer
Introduction Big data consists of very large datasets, which can be structured, unstructured, and semi-structured. Data may be coming from various data sources in real-time or in batches. The traditional tools and technologies we have used in the past are not capable of processing and storing all this data in an efficient way. We need […]
2021-04-26
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Creating Database Build Artifacts when Running Flyway Migrations
This article provides PowerShell automation scripts for running Flyway database migrations. These scripts use SQL Compare to automatically generate all the required database build artifacts in the version control system, for each Flyway deployment.
2021-04-26
Never, Ever, Ever Start T-SQL Comments with Two Dashes
In this article, Brent Ozar explains why you should avoid starting T-SQL comments with two dashes.
2021-04-26
Soft Skills: Controlling your career
Technical skills come and go while soft skills will serve you throughout your life. They will have the greatest influence over your career, job and role. For some people soft skills come naturally. As an Aspergers person (Aspie) I have to practice my soft skills at every opportunity. Pure techies need not lose hope. Soft […]
2021-04-23 (first published: 2019-09-19)
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Down the Rabbit Hole: Dealing with Ad-Hoc Data Requests
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Adding a Local Model to Ollama through the GUI
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Connect resiliently to SQL Server
Why you should connect resiliently to SQL Server Transient failures happen — in the cloud...
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