You can use SQL Doc’s command-line parameters to automate database documentation, but when you try with a group of databases on a server, they sometimes don’t give you enough control over the job. Phil Factor provides a solution that allows both automation and flexibility.
2017-05-23
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In this new Azure Data Warehouse article, we will show how to insert data and retrieve it using PHP.
2017-05-22
626 reads
Continuing his series covering a step-by-step Installation of SQL Server 2016 on a Windows Server 2016 Failover Cluster, Edwin Sarmiento looks at adding a node to an existing SQL Server 2016 failover clustered instance (FCI).
2017-05-22
3,097 reads
In this free demo webinar, Steve Jones and Arneh Eskandari will show how Redgate’s database DevOps solution works to improve your database development and deployment processes. With a focus on using Team Foundation Server (TFS) work items, the webinar will demonstrate how Redgate tools plug into TFS, TFS Build, and Microsoft Release Management. Register now.
2017-05-22
2,620 reads
Can you use SQL Server to extrapolate out trends from your data? Lots of companies would have you buy a BI solution instead, but new author Mark Wojciechowicz brings us a great example of how you could forecast something in T-SQL.
2017-05-19 (first published: 2010-02-09)
56,361 reads
It’s been a while since SQL Cruise has been in Alaska, but come August 12 2017 we are returning in a big way for our 13th event since our founding in 2010, bringing one of the most sought-after minds in Microsoft SQL Server for a week of instruction, conversation, and insight: Bob Ward. The SQL […]
2017-05-19
389 reads
Visual Studio Code is rapidly gaining in popularity, but is it all it could be, or is there room for improvement? Redgate is embarking on some research to better understand how you are using this lightweight editor, and where it can be improved. Have your say by filling in this short survey!
2017-05-19 (first published: 2017-05-17)
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Manvendra Singh explains how to install SQL Server Agent on an Ubuntu server, so that you can create SQL Server Agent Jobs to schedule repetitive tasks.
2017-05-19
2,721 reads
At the end of 2016, Redgate interviewed Bob Walker, a Lead Application Developer, to find out how he went about setting up automated database deployments using Redgate tools, and also to find out what lessons he learned during the process - the highlights make for interesting reading. Read the interview write-up.
2017-05-18
3,059 reads
It is ironic that the users of database application need to rely on the very technologists that created the system to then devise and run their acceptance tests. Surely someone has devised a test system for databases that is simple enough for ordinary tech-savvy people to use and for them to create the tests? Yes they have. Fitnesse DbFit is a mature product that can, and does, test SQL Server databases, and Nat Sundar explains how to set it up and do it.
2017-05-18
3,142 reads
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