How to Persuade Your Company to Change
Like a lot of developers and database administrators, I do a fair amount of short-term problem solving during the course of my normal work week. I get to join...
2019-07-19
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Like a lot of developers and database administrators, I do a fair amount of short-term problem solving during the course of my normal work week. I get to join...
2019-07-19
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Building your database code is an essential practice to ensure that it compiles from source and that dependencies are met. But things can get tricky when you have objects...
2019-06-25
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You’re a DBA, and your development team is all-in on doing DevOps, and they want to include the database. Should your DBA team limit the permissions or options for...
2019-06-13
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This post is a part of #tsql2sday, a monthly community ritual where a topic is proposed by a community member and everyone is invited to join in. This month’s...
2019-06-11
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I recent chatted with some folks who have a permissions problem in SQL Server. The permissions problem isn’t technical — it’s a process problem. The issue is that these...
2019-05-30
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Today I was looped in on an email thread about the pros and cons of attending a specific event. One person on the thread asked if any of us...
2019-05-21
I recently realized that I’m in the early stages of burnout. This isn’t an unfamiliar place for me, but it is new for me to recognize the early signs...
2019-05-14
One of the cool things that I do as an Evangelist at Redgate is to periodically visit company headquarters in Cambridge. The other Evangelists and I get to meet...
2019-05-07
Today I got a bit closer to a meaningful definition of automation, as it applies to the software development process. I’ve been turning this concept over in my head...
2019-04-29
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I got a question recently about a panel discussion on Database Development Disasters at SQL in the City Streamed. I had framed a question as, “how fast should development...
2019-04-23
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Dreaming of a data analyst career but feeling a little lost? Already playing with...
I came across a bit of a weird error when I was trying to...
As a Software Engineer, i would like to learn how to dockerize my Python...
Hi Our Physical servers are going to be moved to a new location and...
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I run a marked transaction across multiple databases with this code:
BEGIN TRAN onemorenewdbTran WITH MARK 'mark from 3 dbs' USE sandbox2 INSERT dbo.AddressTable (AddressID, AddressValue, AddressPostal) VALUES (12, '123 three St', '4444') GO USE sandbox3 INSERT dbo.Logger (logdate, logmsg) VALUES (GETDATE(), 'tran message') GO INSERT sandbox4.dbo.logger (uid) VALUES (700) COMMIT TRAN onemorenewdbTran GOHow many marks are inserted into msdb.dbo.logmarkhistory? See possible answers