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Working around schema drift in SQL Server

At Stack Overflow, our environment has multiple implementations of a largely – but not 100% – identical schema. (By “schema,” I mostly mean the set of tables within a database.) I sometimes need to retrieve or update data across a large number of sites. Let’s say, pulling or removing information from the Users table, and related tables, across all of our databases.

2023-09-01

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10 reasons to choose Flyway

Thousands of organizations use DevOps practices every day to deliver application changes. But what about the database? Excluding the database from your DevOps pipeline and processes risks application performance, data security and integrity. With Flyway, Redgate solves this challenge in one complete solution that sits inside your existing DevOps platform and processes. Find out the 10 reasons why organizations worldwide choose Flyway.

2023-08-28

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Screen Scraping with Python and BeautifulSoup Code Examples

BeautifulSoup (sometimes referred to as Beautiful Soup library) is one of several widely used screen scraping packages for a web page. It is highly regarded for its ease of use and power.
Screen scraping enables developers to create solutions that permit comparative analyses from all over the internet, such as web applications that look for the best price on an item from many different online stores.

2023-08-25

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Backup to Immutable Storage

In SQL Server 2025, a backup can be made on Azure Immutable Storage. What changes in how the backup is created?

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