Better Government Security Through DevOps
DevOps can help provide better security for your databases.
2020-08-26
84 reads
DevOps and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
What's the Bus Factor?
Today Steve asks about the people that might be critical in your organization.
2020-08-21
158 reads
Getting Started with Azure DevOps
Microsoft provides Azure DevOps for hosting your repos, setting up pipelines and more. In this article, Diogo Souza shows you how to get started using Azure DevOps.
2020-08-07
2020-08-04
111 reads
Getting Started with GitFlow
In this article, Diogo Souza explains GitFlow, a branching model for Git. He demonstrates how to work with GitFlow to create and deploy a feature and a hotfix to GitHub.
2020-07-20
Carefully Giving Normal Users Security Permissions
When we need to delegate work to less privileged users, Steve has an idea.
2020-07-16
194 reads
2020-06-30
180 reads
Unlocking the value of frequent database deployments
Database deployments are on the rise, with more organizations releasing weekly or daily. But this does not always result in more value being delivered. Steve Jones advises the steps you can take to unlock the value of frequent releases in this blog.
2020-06-18
How Automating Your Tests Improves Productivity
In some shops, testing is entirely in the realm of quality analysts. In this article, Julio Sampaio argues that testing should be automated and start with the developers.
2020-06-08
Double Half and Quarter
I've worked in a a couple very high performing organizations that adapted to changing conditions and built software well. I've worked in more poorly performing organizations that struggled to release updates and patches, causing tremendous stress for the IT staff. DevOps is designed to help improve our software delivery and quality, if you work on […]
2020-06-08
108 reads
Blogs
Advice I Like: Pyramid Schemes
By Steve Jones
If someone is trying to convince you it’s not a pyramid scheme, it’s a...
Using Prompt AI for a Travel Data Analysis
By Steve Jones
I was looking back at my year and decided to see if SQL Prompt...
FinOps for Kubernetes: Leveraging OpenCost, KubeGreen, and Kubecost for Cost Efficiency
In the era of cloud-native applications, Kubernetes has become the default standard platform for...
Forums
Database file shrink issue.
Hi experts, I have a 3+ TB database on a 2019 sql server which...
The North Star for the Year
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Multiple Escape Characters
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Question of the Day
Multiple Escape Characters
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code (in a database with the appropriate collation):
SELECT UNISTR('%*3041%*308A%*304C%*3068 and good night', '%*') AS 'A Classic';
What is returned? See possible answers