Delivering Patches Quickly
Tesla updates their cars over the air while many other companies require you to move slow and visit a dealer. Steve thinks we can be more like Tesla as developers if we move to DevOps.
2020-11-30
85 reads
DevOps and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
Continuous deployment at scale
More organisations are adopting DevOps, but what happens as the codebase grows? In this article, Siddharth Rao gives advice on how to implement continuous deployment at scale.
2020-11-27
Get involved in the 2021 State of Database DevOps survey
We’re inviting you to take part in the 2021 State of Database DevOps survey! Now in its 5th year, the leading research on Database DevOps will also explore how DevOps strategies have contributed to the resilience of the database during the pandemic. Complete the survey to get exclusive access to the final report and the chance to win a $500 Amazon gift card. Take the survey here.
2020-11-23
Checking the pulse of Kubernetes
In this article, Michael Sorens describes the many ways that you can monitor Kubernetes.
2020-11-12
Building Bad Software Faster
DevOps doesn't mean just building software faster. Quality matters as well.
2020-11-09
146 reads
Git Anatomy
In this article, Dino Esposito gives an overview of git explaining repository, commit, and branch.
2020-11-05
Maintaining Data in a Flow
One of the challenges of using scripts is maintaining them and ensuring the adapt over time.
2020-11-04
115 reads
Building Quality In
I heard someone at the 2020 DevOps Enterprise Summit conference say that quality needs to be built in. That's something that many, or hopefully most, of us believe. Everyone ought to do quality work and build it into their daily tasks. However, the person speaking went further and defined this in a way I like: […]
2020-10-29
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2020-10-13
163 reads
What's the Lunch Factor?
DevOps is about being effective and getting work out to customers. Today Steve notes that the lunch factor might help you reexamine your software development process.
2020-10-09
308 reads
Blogs
Learn about Modern Microsoft Apps in San Diego
By Steve Jones
I wrote about learning today for the editorial: I Can’t Make You Learn. I...
How To Deploy Fabric SQL and Azure SQL Databases with Azure DevOps
By ReviewMyDB
Fabric has CI/CD built in, but if you've tried to use it for database...
A New Word: Attriage
By Steve Jones
attriage – n. the state of having lost all control over how you feel...
Forums
SSRS Reminded Me of the Time Microsoft Retired TMG
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SSRS Reminded Me of the...
Getting results from a Procedure to join to a query
I have a need to execute a stored procedure and return the results to...
Upgrade 2016 Standard to 2022 Express
Title pretty much says it all - can this be done? I've tried several...
Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT II
In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data:
UserID UserPermissions 15 23 37 4 NULLWhat is returned when I run this code:
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount from dbo.UserPermission where UserID = 4;See possible answers