Metrics that matter for IT organizations on an agile journey
Measuring the wrong things is worse than not measuring anything. In this article, Mallika Gunturu explains the right things to measure for agile.
2022-08-22
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5 things to look for in a 3rd party database monitoring tool
Are you evaluating the effectiveness of your homegrown database monitoring tool or looking at investing in a 3rd party one? This helpful blog post suggests 5 things to look for in your evaluations.
2022-08-19
Create a Table in Microsoft SQL Server
Learn how to create a table in SQL Server using T-SQL along with several different examples that build upon each other to create the final table.
2022-08-19
Introduction to Testing a Flyway Development
How to use Flyway Teams to run basic tests whenever it successfully executes a migration, checking that all the business processes supported by our database always produce the expected results.
2022-08-17
Power BI Dynamic X and Y Axis Using Groupings in Field Parameters
In this step-by-step article, learn how to dynamically select what displays on the X or Y axis of a Power BI chart.
2022-08-17
Metrics that matter for IT organizations on an agile journey
Measuring the wrong things is worse than not measuring anything. In this article, Mallika Gunturu explains the right things to measure for agile.
2022-08-15
Re-baselining a Database using Flyway Desktop
Over time, Flyway projects can accumulate a lot of migration scripts, with many database objects being created, altered, and dropped across many files. Tonie Huizer explains why you might want to create a new baseline migration file to create the latest version of a Flyway-managed database in a single leap, and how to persuade Flyway Desktop to do it.
2022-08-15
Metrics that matter for IT organizations on an agile journey
Measuring the wrong things is worse than not measuring anything. In this article, Mallika Gunturu explains the right things to measure for agile.
2022-08-12
Searching a Flyway Database
As a database gets larger, and development more complex, so it becomes increasingly necessary to be able to search for strings in the source files and the database itself. Maybe you need to find when a table first got created, when a foreign key was added, or to find out which tables lack documentation. I'll show you how to answer these sorts of questions by running simple 'wildcard' searches on your Flyway migration files, or source files, as well as more targeted searches on certain parts of your database model.
2022-08-12
Database DevOps: Standardize, Automate, Monitor & Protect
See how our end-to-end framework for extending DevOps to your database enables your organization to balance the demand to deliver software fast with the need to protect and preserve business critical data.
2022-08-10
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Identities and Sequences I
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?
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