How I Use Streamlabs OBS for Streaming and Training Classes
I’ve been working on my streaming setup for months now, and I’m just trying to save you some time if you really wanna take the streaming thing seriously.
2020-06-04
Additional Articles
Automate Oracle database deployments with Redgate Change Automation
We’re excited to introduce a brand-new capability of the Deployment Suite for Oracle: Redgate Change Automation is a command line tool with built-in safety checks that lets you safely automate your Oracle database deployment. With four commands that help you build, test, prepare, and perform Oracle database releases, Redgate Change Automation can be used as part of a CI/CD pipeline.
2020-06-03
SQL Server Business Continuity – Know Your Options
SQL Server database business continuity, including high availability and disaster recovery, is not an easy topic to engineer for. The business must work with the IT teams to define service-level agreements, statistically significant scenarios to plan for, and then decide on a budget.
2020-06-03
How to Add Help to PowerShell Scripts
PowerShell scripts are the tool of choice for many admins, but how do you make them easy for others to use? In this article, Greg Moore shows how to add professional looking help to your scripts that work just like the help in cmdlets.
2020-06-02
Text Mining and Sentiment Analysis: Analysis with R
In the third article of this series, Sanil Mhatre demonstrates how to perform a sentiment analysis using R including generating a word cloud, word associations, sentiment scores, and emotion classification.
2020-06-01
2020-06-01
Updated First Responder Kit and Consultant Toolkit for May 2020
My favorite new things are that sp_BlitzIndex @Mode = 2 now makes it even easier to do disconnected index tuning just purely inside a spreadsheet, and sp_BlitzCache runs faster on big servers.
2020-05-29
Rewiring Your Culture for an AI-Augmented Future with Intelligent DataOps
Is your organization—and your data team—ready to embrace an AI-augmented future?
2020-05-28
How Many Databases Can You Name?
How many different database applications exist? Many people can name the most common ones such as MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and Oracle. Most good DBAs and programmers could likely rattle off a dozen different databases is you asked them to.
2020-05-27
Implementing a Data Quality Monitoring Framework
For any Business Intelligence solution to be useful for analytical and decision-making purposes, it is imperative that the underlying data quality is good so, that reports generated are reliable to make business decisions. This article from Imran Quadri Syed walks the through steps involved to implement a successful Data Quality Monitoring framework that would validate incoming data against predefined data quality rules and capture data quality metrics.
2020-05-26
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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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