Looking Back
Today Steve talks about retrospectives and how we learn and grow as software professionals.
2020-03-30
78 reads
DevOps and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
A Data Controversy
A request to rapidly gather data caused some friction recently. Is that something that organizations ought to be prepared to handle?
2020-03-26
134 reads
Enterprise Insights from the 2020 State of Database DevOps report
17% of Enterprise respondents in this year's State of Database DevOps survey reported that DevOps has been adopted across all projects in their organization. This year’s State of Database DevOps report gave us some great insights into the landscape of Database DevOps. Kendra Little walks us through those insights specific to Enterprise organizations.
2020-03-12
Build your DevOps business case with industry insights
With over 2000 participants from every industry sector across the globe, the State of Database DevOps report will help shape the business case of any team looking to implement or improve their approach to database DevOps, no matter the platform they choose to work with. Including a foreword from Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman, Customer Success Engineer at Microsoft, discover the landscape of database DevOps for 2020.
2020-03-05
Enterprise Insights from the 2020 State of Database DevOps report
17% of Enterprise respondents in this year's State of Database DevOps survey reported that DevOps has been adopted across all projects in their organization. This year’s State of Database DevOps report gave us some great insights into the landscape of Database DevOps. Kendra Little walks us through those insights specific to Enterprise organizations.
2020-02-28
But the Database Worked in Development! Checking for Duplicates
As developers should not have access to production data, it’s possible that duplicate values can sneak in during migrations. In this article of the series, Phil Factor demonstrates a way to check for duplicates when unique constraints are disabled.
2020-02-27
Record responses for the State of Database DevOps report
The fourth annual State of Database DevOps report is now available for download. Kendra Little announces the launch in her latest blog. Check out the first high level findings of the report here.
2020-02-18
Developer Time is More Valuable Than Ever
Today, Kendra Little talks about how DevOps adoption affects developer productivity and time.
2020-02-14
171 reads
The Main Obstacles to Implementing Database DevOps
Today, Kendra explains what's holding organizations back from implementing Database DevOps.
2020-02-12
209 reads
New: 2020 State of Database DevOps report
Now in it’s 4th year, the State of Database DevOps report continues to deliver valuable insights. In the report, you will learn multiple tactics to improve the quality of database code deployment, whether it is by changing the type of environment used for development, enhancing your code review practices, or your change management/approval practices.
2020-02-28 (first published: 2020-02-10)
Blogs
Creating a New Sequence–#SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I wrote about sequences in an editorial recently and decided to start using them....
An All Star Lineup for EightKB
By Steve Jones
An online conference is coming on June 17, 2020 that is full of high...
How should I store currency values in SQL Server?
On Twitter, Michael Dyrynda writes: ?? Never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever...
Forums
Filestream or Filetable or None...what to be used?
I've been assigned with a project that includes converting the columns in the existing...
How to force MS SQL to select a partition instead of making a full table scan
Hi all, I am currently designing a datamart layer in MS SQL 2016 Enterprise....
Daily 3 Coping
Today’s tip is find three good reasons to be hopeful for the future. http://voiceofthedba.com/2020/06/03/daily-coping-3-jun-2020/
Ask SSC