What's the Quarantine state in Windows Failover Clusters
In this article we cover why Windows Failover Cluster nodes can go into a quarantined state, how to resolve this as well as how to set threshold values for this cluster node state.
2021-02-08
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Create Azure DevOps Analytics Visuals with Power BI OData Queries
This article focuses on the use of OData Queries to integrate DevOps Analytics data to Power BI.
2021-02-05
Gitflow Workflow Hotfix Branching for SQL Database Projects
Git is a great tool for source control and in this tip we look at how you can utilize Git source control to build and deploy database hotfixes.
2021-02-05
Oracle archived redo size – the research
Oracle archived redo size may be smaller than that of online redo log files. In this article, Jonathan Lewis takes a deeper look.
2021-02-04
SQL Server SET STATISTICS IO ON Deep Dive
In this article we look at how to interpret and use the results of STATISTICS IO when tuning SQL Server queries.
2021-02-04
CRUD Operations in SQL Server using Python
This article goes through a process to show how you can use Python to perform create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) operations on SQL Server data.
2021-02-03
Managing database changes using Flyway: an Overview
This article describes the principles of using Flyway migrations to build a database from scripts, to a specified version, and to track, manage and apply all database changes.
2021-02-03
Create Azure VM from a VHD image
Learn how to create an Azure VM image that can be used to quickly deploy new Azure VMs that are preconfigured based on your image settings.
2021-02-02
Database version control: Getting started with Flyway
Flyway is a multi-platform, cross-database version control tool. Carlos Robles explains Flyway’s history and shows how it works.
2021-02-02
Simple way to find errors in SQL Server error log
In this tip we look at how to parse the SQL Server error log to only extract the errors and corresponding error messages.
2021-02-01
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Question of the Day
UNISTR Basics
What does this code return in SQL Server 2025+? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
SELECT UNISTR('Hello 4E16754C') AS 'A Classic';
A: 
B: 
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