Kathi Kellenberger introduces the new Estate monitoring pages in SQL Monitor 9, and explains how they will help DBAs monitor and safeguard the security, stability and availability of all servers in their care.
2019-04-18 (first published: 2019-04-08)
Kendra Little shows how to get the WideWorldImporters database into version control, using SQL Source Control, and then set up an automated database build process, using Azure DevOps with SQL Change Automation.
2019-04-17 (first published: 2019-04-03)
Template-based provisioning simplifies deployment and promotes principles of DevOps and Infrastructure as Code, making it the recommended method for implementing cloud-based services. However, its benefits extend beyond initial implementation, since you can apply it to configuring and maintaining existing Azure SQL Database instances. In this article, you explore an example of this approach.
2019-04-17
A monitoring tool must provide us with an understanding of the often-complex performance patterns that databases exhibit when under load, so that we can predict how they will cope with expansion or increase in scale. It must also helps us spot the symptoms of stress and act before they become problems that affect the service, and understand better what was happening within a database when an intermittent problem started.
2019-04-17
Phil Factor shows how to automatically apply T-SQL modification scripts during image and clone creation. Using this technique you can, for example, apply data masking to all clones, or customize an individual clone to work on a special variant or branch version, or set up instance level objects like Agent jobs or linked servers.
2019-04-16
Want to get database DevOps implemented where you work but unsure where to start or how? We’ve written a handy blog to help you begin your database DevOps journey....
2019-04-15
All it really means is, “Click Execute again, and you will be fine.”
2019-04-15
SQL Monitor not only collects all the disk and database growth tracking data you need, automatically, but also analyses trends in this data to predict accurately when either a disk volume will run out of free space, or a database file will need to grow.
2019-04-12
In this tip we look at how to build a custom approach to managing SQL Server Agent history data.
2019-04-12
It can be quite a shock for developers to realize they can make radical changes to the data or schema, while testing, safe in the knowledge that it will take them only a few seconds to revert the database to its original state. Phil Factor demonstrates how it's done, using SQL Clone and PowerShell.
2019-04-11
By Vinay Thakur
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