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
DevOps and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
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
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Help Redgate to build the next generation of Database DevOps solutions
Help Redgate to build the next generation of Database DevOps solutions so that we can help you to deliver the next generation of your software. To get involved please complete our short 2-page survey on current development practices.
2020-06-04
Looking Back
Today Steve talks about retrospectives and how we learn and grow as software professionals.
2022-08-24 (first published: 2020-03-30)
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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
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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
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