If you are introducing DevOps workflows into a large organization, you’ll need to plan carefully and prioritize tasks, adapt, maintain a thick skin, communicate constantly, and ensure that all...
2017-05-01
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Andy Mallon explains DTUs (Database Transaction Units) and the differences you might see between the documentation and practical usage.
2017-05-01
6,723 reads
Microsoft introduced Azure SQL Data Warehouse, a new enterprise-class, elastic petabyte-scale, data warehouse service that can scale according to organizational demands in just few minutes. In this article, Arshad Ali discusses the different types of tables you can create in SQL Data Warehouse, how they impact performance and the best practices around them.
2017-04-28
3,633 reads
A series of arguments with developers who insist that fuzzy searches or spell-checking be done within the application rather then a relational database inspired Phil Factor to show how it is done. When the database must find relevant material from search terms entered by users, the database must learn to expect, and deal with, both expected and unexpected.
2017-04-27
7,260 reads
Microsoft announced the availability of SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) on Azure late last year. Siddharth Mehta walks through how to quickly set up a tabular data model in SSAS Azure.
2017-04-26
2,859 reads
The Redgate Foundry team have been researching data masking, and have found that generally speaking there's six common approaches. In this blog post, Toby Smyth runs through all six.
2017-04-24
3,252 reads
Andrea Angella shares what he learned from attending Michael Feather's workshop on working effectively with legacy code.
2017-04-20
4,251 reads
Node.JS and SQL Server are a good match for creating non-blocking, event-driven database applications. Though you can use ODBC or JDBC to communicate between the two, it is possible to run such applications on platforms such as Azure, Linux, OSX and iOS by using Node together with the JavaScript TDS library called 'Tedious'. 'Tedious' is a mature product but it is still possible to get things wrong in converting SQL Server datatypes such as BigInt to native Javascript data.
2017-04-19
3,491 reads
Tom Austin talks about the challenges that arise from trying to include the database in your DevOps process.
2017-04-18
3,224 reads
The ability to scale out SSRS, so that multiple report server instances can access a single report server database, is an Enterprise Edition-only feature. So when Rodney Landrum was tasked with implementing a scale-out solution, with failover, for SSRS on SQL Server Standard Edition, it required some creative thinking. This article describes his solution, its merits and drawbacks.
2017-04-18
3,892 reads
By Brian Kelley
During COVID, I attended training on software/enterprise architecture given by Mark Richards. One of...
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