DevOps – Downloading a File from the Internet with PoSh

One of the things we need to do as data professionals is move data files around. Often we’ll get a...

DevOps Can Help

DevOps can help, not just development, but also infrastructure, if you spend time adapting the practices to your environment.

The Need for DRE

We need to become engineers instead of administrators.

Your Job Description

This Friday Steve Jones talks about job posting and descriptions. This is the chance to think about what you do and how you might describe this to your replacement.

Random Masking

Renaming MDF/LDF Files–SQLNewBlogger

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...

Restore a BACPAC–#SQLNewBlogger

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...

Securing the Things

The Internet of Things is coming, and bringing lots of data, but security needs to be included as well.

JSON query issues

A Bad First Day

A bad first day, as a developer crashes a production database.