Power BI is becoming widely used for reporting and data analysis. There are many different versions of Power BI and the features that are offered and this article provides an overview of what is available.
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A set of PowerShell automation script tasks for running database build and migrations tasks. This article describes the SQL code analysis task, which will check the syntax of the SQL code in your databases and your migration scripts for 'code smells'.
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In this article, Edward Pollack explains the benefits of a SQL Server data dictionary and how to build one.
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Calling data professionals! We want to know how you are monitoring your servers, instances and databases. By taking the 2021 State of Database Monitoring survey, you’ll help us better understand how the community monitor and manage their estates, and the challenges they face. You’ll get exclusive early access to the 2021 State of Database Monitoring report, plus, one lucky winner will receive a $500 Amazon gift card in our prize draw.
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How to detect database drift prior to running a database migration, so that you can be certain that a database hasn't been subject to any 'uncontrolled' changes that could affect the migration or result in untested changes being deployed to production.
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In this article we cover interesting facts about the hidden resource database in SQL Server and how this is used by SQL Server.
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Communication is at the heart of DevOps, but it can be difficult to achieve. Mike Cuppett explains how to improve DevOps communication clarity.
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This article provides PowerShell automation scripts for running Flyway database migrations. These scripts use SQL Compare to automatically generate all the required database build artifacts in the version control system, for each Flyway deployment.
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In this article, Brent Ozar explains why you should avoid starting T-SQL comments with two dashes.
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In this article we cover the topic of data wrangling which is steps you can take to cleanup and validate data prior to data analysis.
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