When people begin applying DevOps principles to database development using Redgate tooling, often one of the first steps in the process involves getting database code into version control. Questions...
2020-01-11
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Are we Human or Robots ? AI & ML shall definitely change the world some day in future. One thing is also sure, very soon we’ll also become machines...
2020-01-07
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I’ve learned a bit about Git in the last year: I’m now quite comfortable creating and managing Git Repos in Azure DevOps. I frequently do demos with SQL Change...
2020-01-03
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In this 35 minute livestream recording, I commit conflicting code to a Git repo in Azure DevOps Services using Redgate’s SQL Source Control, then step through options to fix...
2019-12-27
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In this six minute video, I explain why you should take the 2020 State of Database DevOps Survey. The survey is open for a few more days — we’ve...
2019-12-19
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I was fascinated yesterday to come across the term, “Database Reliability Engineering,” which I hadn’t seen before. In this 22 minute whiteboarding session, I talk about why we need...
2019-12-18
3 reads
ONLINE operations in SQL Server were simple to understand for years — we got ONLINE index rebuilds in SQL Server 2005. That was it for a while. Then, things...
2019-12-10
335 reads
The other day, I was looking back at an excellent blog post my colleague Jamie Wallis wrote about what Product Marketing Managers do at Redgate. I really like the...
2019-12-09
5 reads
Chocolatey is a package manager that helps you install, upgrade, and uninstall packages (applications) on Windows quickly and easily from the command line. Spoilers: The command I show in...
2019-12-02
33 reads
I created a cheat sheet for the Git Command Line Interface to go along with my Git tutorial for SQL Change Automation video. I find the Git CLI to...
2019-11-27
15 reads
By Steve Jones
I’ve been very happy with Docker Desktop for years, running it on both laptop...
By Rayis Imayev
(2025-June-15) Long gone are the days when a data engineer could simply focus on building...
By Ed Elliott
I recently encountered an interesting issue with ADF where the publish feature suddenly attempted...
In the world of SQL Server development, optimization is everything. We spend hours tuning...
If I configure remote access to 0 on my servers, am I right in...
What is the best way to set the schedule of a maintenance plan or...
I am trying to analyze a number of columns in a large table to determine the highest value for each row. In SQL Server 2022, we have the GREATEST function, which will return the greatest value from those columns passed in. How many columns can I include in an expression like this:
select GREATEST( col1, col2, col3, ...)See possible answers