How different is it working as a DBA at an airline? Find out how your peers work in this series: DBAs at work. This episode features Deborah Thompson, Database Administrator at WestJet, Canada’s second largest airline.
2021-12-15
Demonstrates a cross-database PowerShell callback script for reporting on and auditing Flyway migrations, telling you which scripts were used to create each version, when they were run, who ran them and more.
2021-12-13
In this article we look at how ingestion will read data from the landing zone and push data into the Bronze layer of the Delta Lake tables for Azure Synapse Analytics.
2021-12-13
The 'ShouldExecute' script configuration option in Flyway Teams simplifies 'conditional execution' of SQL migration files. This makes it easier to support multiple application versions from the same Flyway project, to deal with different cultural or legislative requirements. It also helps developers handle environmental differences between development, test and staging, such as the need to support multiple versions or releases of the RDBMS.
2021-12-10
SSRS reports can be built using DAX. In this article, Adam Aspin explains how to get started using DAX to build the reports.
2021-12-10
In this article we look at how to create a scale-out SQL Server PolyBase solution on AWS
2021-12-08
Redgate estimate that the savings realized with a monitoring tool could be well over $85,000 / year*. Does your organization understand how a monitoring tool can impact almost every department?
2021-12-08
How Dry Run scripts work, and how they can be used to deliver a single-script release artifact to Staging, verify placeholder substitutions in SQL migration scripts, and simply team code reviews.
2021-12-06
SQL Server sequence objects have several properties that control how they behave. Greg Larson explains the options of using SQL Server sequence objects.
2021-12-06
SQL Monitor v12.0 has added a new Query Text Search feature to allow users to search the text of the most expensive queries that executed on a SQL Server instance over a period. Here's what it does, and how it works.
2021-12-03
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In SQL Server 2025, I run this code (in a database with the appropriate collation):
SELECT UNISTR('%*3041%*308A%*304C%*3068 and good night', '%*') AS 'A Classic';
What is returned? See possible answers