Learn about the options to add users to Azure SQL Databases including SQL authentication logins, contained SQL users, contained Azure Active Directory users, mapped logins to users - including code examples you can copy and use immediately.
2022-01-03
This article explains the fastest ways to restore the previous version of the database, to recover from a failed Flyway migration that leaves the database in an indeterminate state, and then how to adapt your database development process to avoid these problems.
2021-12-31
Learn different ways to create FOR Loops using T-SQL such as using WHILE loops, cursors, tally tables and more.
2021-12-31
This article looks at what an average day of a SQL Server Data Architect looks like and some of the things you would need to as a Data Architect.
2021-12-29
Want an insight into how your fellow DBAs work? This episode features Kevin Davis, Manager of Database Administration at Tower Loan, a consumer finance company with 250 branches across the US.
2021-12-29
This article will get you up and running quickly with Flyway migrations on MariaDB or MySQL databases, from PowerShell.
2021-12-27
Learn about joining SQL Server tables together for a query when there is a need to join on multiple columns.
2021-12-27
How to quickly and automatically bulk load test data once Flyway Teams completes a database migration. A baseline migration script creates the empty database version, which then triggers a PowerShell callback script that bulk loads in the right version of the data. It is a very fast way to provision multiple copies of a specific database version, complete with data, for ad-hoc or automated testing.
2021-12-24
Learn how to perform data deduplication for Azure Synapse Analytics using Azure Mapping Data Flows.
2021-12-24
How to add test data to a SQL Server database, during Flyway development. We use SQL Data Generator to produce some "realistic but fake" data and then SQL Data Compare to produce an INSERT script that Flyway can use to load the data into a newly-built version of the database.
2021-12-22
By James Serra
Once again there were a number of Microsoft Build announcements related to data and...
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I was messing around with SQLCMD and I realized something I hadn’t known. I’ve...
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