How to Persuade Your Company to Change
Like a lot of developers and database administrators, I do a fair amount of short-term problem solving during the course of my normal work week. I get to join...
2019-07-19
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Managing Cross-Database Dependencies in Builds (Redgate video)
Building your database code is an essential practice to ensure that it compiles from source and that dependencies are met. But things can get tricky when you have objects...
2019-06-25
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How Developers and DBAs Collaborate in a DevOps World (video)
You’re a DBA, and your development team is all-in on doing DevOps, and they want to include the database. Should your DBA team limit the permissions or options for...
2019-06-13
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A letter to my 20 year-old self
This post is a part of #tsql2sday, a monthly community ritual where a topic is proposed by a community member and everyone is invited to join in. This month’s...
2019-06-11
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DBAs: Stop Denying Sysadmin to Developers
I recent chatted with some folks who have a permissions problem in SQL Server. The permissions problem isn’t technical — it’s a process problem. The issue is that these...
2019-05-30
3 reads
What’s Unique About SQL Saturdays: Nearly Everyone Interacts with Other People
Today I was looped in on an email thread about the pros and cons of attending a specific event. One person on the thread asked if any of us...
2019-05-21
How to recognize the early stages of burnout, and my treatment plan
I recently realized that I’m in the early stages of burnout. This isn’t an unfamiliar place for me, but it is new for me to recognize the early signs...
2019-05-14
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Paying down technical debt
One of the cool things that I do as an Evangelist at Redgate is to periodically visit company headquarters in Cambridge. The other Evangelists and I get to meet...
2019-05-07
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What is Automation?
Today I got a bit closer to a meaningful definition of automation, as it applies to the software development process. I’ve been turning this concept over in my head...
2019-04-29
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Should release cadence be slowed if you don’t have database load testing?
I got a question recently about a panel discussion on Database Development Disasters at SQL in the City Streamed. I had framed a question as, “how fast should development...
2019-04-23
6 reads
Blogs
Modifying a Trigger to Capture More Info: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I had someone ask me about using triggers to detect changes in their tables....
SQL Server Agent Jobs: Set It and Forget It?
By Kevin3NF
Useful tips to make your jobs more stable Too many IT teams treat SQL...
From SQL Server to PostgreSQL: A Story of 5 Key SQL Differences
After spending decades working in SQL Server, getting familiar with PostgreSQL felt like traveling...
Forums
One big server with multiple instances, or multiple smaller servers...
We're currently on SQL 2019 and will likely be looking to migrate to a...
Transitioning AlwaysOn Availability Group to Synchronous Commit Mode
Hello, I have a SQL Server with an AlwaysOn configuration consisting of three replicas...
CDC & Azure Managed Instances - Performance degredation
Anyone got any good advice for performance tuning CDC on a Managed Instance? We...
Question of the Day
The Trigger Updated Column(s)
In a trigger, I can use UPDATE() or UPDATED_COLUMNS() to determine which columns were changed. For these functions, which one accepts a column name as a parameter?
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