Checking the pulse of Kubernetes
In this article, Michael Sorens describes the many ways that you can monitor Kubernetes.
2020-11-12
DevOps and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
Building Bad Software Faster
DevOps doesn't mean just building software faster. Quality matters as well.
2020-11-09
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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
114 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
162 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
307 reads
Pulling Together
A number of companies worked together to ensure that they could meet the challenge of the NHS. Sharing data was critical to this effort.
2020-10-08
125 reads
DevOps and Exhibits
DevOps continues to improve the way we build software and Steve has a good example in today's editorial.
2020-10-06
71 reads
Why you should embed monitoring earlier in your Database DevOps cycle
With insights from a recent Gartner report, Redgate’s Jamie Wallis looks at the benefits of tracking, and acting on, key metrics early in the DevOps process and how they can apply equally to database monitoring.
2020-09-21
Blogs
Who Are You Doing It For?
By Brian Kelley
But as I've matured over the years, I came to realize that I needed...
Presenting Twice in May 2026
By alevyinroc
I will be presenting my latest session, Documenting Your Work for Worry-Free Vacations, in-person...
Finding the Next Sequence Value: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I saw a question asking about the next sequence value and decided to try...
Forums
DB Design Methods
I've read a few posts regarding what we use to design DB models and...
Auto Update Statistics not triggering on filtered indexes
I've got a table with 186,703,969 rows, about 300GB of data. There are several...
What is the difference between SQL Server and SQL Database?
I created a SQL Database in Azure Portal but I've just noticed it also...
Question of the Day
An Unusual Identity
What values are returned when I run this code?
CREATE TABLE dbo.IdentityTest2
(
id NUMERIC(10,0) IDENTITY(10,10) PRIMARY KEY,
somevalue VARCHAR(20)
)
GO
INSERT dbo.IdentityTest2
(
somevalue
)
VALUES
( 'Steve')
, ('Bill')
GO
SELECT top 10
id
FROM dbo.IdentityTest2 See possible answers