Continuous Integration/Delivery without Testing!
Anything we can do to automate our builds and deployment should be considered. After all, the point isn’t just to...
2014-08-28 (first published: 2014-08-25)
7,615 reads
Databases – Infrastructure – Security
Still a Need for a SQL Server Specific Organization
If you haven’t already, please read Denise McInerney’s post about why PASS no longer stands for the Professional Association for...
2014-08-20
656 reads
Guest Post on SQL Authority – Default Trace & Deleted Databases
I had the opportunity to write another guest post at SQL Authority:
Finding Out What Changed in a Deleted Database
This one...
2014-08-14
1,352 reads
One of Those Must Read Books – The Cuckoo’s Egg
I was reading a book about network security monitoring and it mentioned The Cuckoo’s Egg by Cliff Stoll. Stoll’s book has been...
2014-08-13
515 reads
Guest Editorial Live on SSC
My guest editorial is live on SQLServerCentral.com. My argument is a simple one: we don’t care about data and IT...
2014-08-11
490 reads
Speaking on ETL Security
I will be giving a presentation on ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) security at two user groups in the coming weeks.
Securing...
2014-07-25
875 reads
Midlands PASS July Meeting – July 10
The Midlands PASS Chapter will hold its next meeting on July 10. We meet at MicroStaff IT in Cayce, SC....
2014-07-03
464 reads
PASS Summit Session Selection
Let’s make it democratic. Let’s ensure we get solid sessions from key people. And let’s save a ton of work...
2014-06-27
1,277 reads
What is an “operational” DBA?
On Facebook last night, I posted the following:
An operational DBA isn’t just a manager of a traditional RDBMS, transactional system....
2014-06-27
5,287 reads
“A good DBA is a lazy DBA”
I’m borrowing from Andy Leonard (blog | twitter) who says all the time, “Good engineers are lazy.”
If you’re thinking, “Why would I want (to...
2014-06-25
1,958 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #198 Roundup: How Do You Detect Data Changes?
Thank you to everyone who participated in T-SQL Tuesday #198! When I wrote the...
Optimizing Redshift Performance by Configuring WLM Queues
Efficient query performance in Amazon Redshift often comes down to how well you manage...
PowerShell Strikes Back: Return of the Loop
By gbargsley
Welcome back to PowerShell Strikes Back. We’re three weeks in, and the training is...
Forums
Dealing with huge heap tables
Recently, our dev teams approach me for advice on improving their huge heap table...
Merge Replication failing with Error converting data type nvarchar to numeric
After upgrading 2 Merge Replicated databases to SQL 2022 and re-establishing the Merge Replication...
Why Your Index Isn't Being Used? - Reading Execution Plans to Find the Real Culprit
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Why Your Index Isn't Being...
Question of the Day
Distance Metric Algorithms
What are the distance metric algorithms that can be used in VECTOR_DISTANCE()?
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