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Whitepaper: Enabling fast and easy database migrations with Flyway

High performing teams must implement a common approach to database migrations so that the database can be included in Continuous Delivery. This ‘kernel’ of Database DevOps leads to better alignment between developers and Ops teams, and increases the throughput of high quality releases. The key for many is Flyway, and this whitepaper explores how this highly configurable migrations tool enables a bespoke migrations-based deployment strategy that is easy to adopt and scale across teams

2020-12-18

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Free eBook: Fundamentals of SQL Server 2012 Replication

Fundamentals of SQL Server 2012 Replication provides a hands-on introduction to SQL Server replication. The book introduces you to the technologies that make up replication, and then walks you through setting up different replication scenarios. When you've finished reading, you should be able to implement your own multi-server replication setup while following the principle of least privilege.

2020-12-16 (first published: )

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Normal Forms

To prevent data change anomalies, a database should be normalized. Did you know that there are 10 normal forms? In this article, Joe Celko reviews normalizing databases including commonly used normal forms.

2020-12-15

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Basic Git for DBAs: Ignoring Files and Customizing Your Environment

This is the eighth article in a series on the basics of using Git. The other articles in the series are: Basic Git for DBAs: Getting Started with Git Basic Git for DBAs: Sharing Files Through GitHub Basic Git for DBAs: the Basics of Branches Basic Git for DBAs: Making Changes in GitHub Basic Git […]

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2020-12-14

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Question of the Day

Running SQLCMD II

I run this command to start SQLCMD: 

sqlcmd -S localhost -E -c "proceed"
At the prompt, I type this (the 1> and 2> are prompts): 
1> select @@version
2> go
What happens?

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