Establishing coding standards can help remove blockers to understanding code, improving quality and reducing maintenance. Faris Hilmi explains how having consistently formatted code plays a larger role in database development and how Redgate tools can best equip you for the task.
2019-05-30
These are tough times for businesses in the EU. Is the UK going to be in or out? Quite simply, businesses are finding it difficult to plan anything when everything is up in the air, and no one can confirm what will happen next. All of which is making many businesses wary of making a decision to invest in their IT infrastructure. Enter DevOps.
2019-05-21
For application developers it is unthinkable to work without version control. Yet, only 55% of database developers are version controlling their database changes? Mary Robbins provides six reasons why you should version control your database.
2019-05-13
I spend a lot of time showing how to use tools to automate database deployments in support of DevOps. However, the one message that I always try to deliver...
2019-05-13
Phil Factor demonstrates the basics of how to automate database builds into a Linux SQL Server container running on Windows, and then backup the containerized database and restore it...
2019-05-13
A good day for a database administrator (DBA) is a lot like a good airline flight. A lot of excitement in either situation is bad. In a perfect world,...
2019-05-09
John Morehouse describes how a quest to help solve his organization's "deployment bottleneck" led them to a place where they could both deliver application and database changes into the...
2019-05-09
An emerging discipline called DataOps is taking a page out of the DevOps playbook. The latter is all about accelerating the time to software delivery, and the former about accelerating data flow. And just as DevOps replaces the waterfall method of software delivery, DataOps replaces the waterfall approach of delivering data to the data consumer.
2019-05-03
Kendra Little gets a bit closer to a meaningful definition of automation, as it applies to the software development process.
2019-05-02
In my last post I showed how to build an Azure DevOps Pipeline for a Terraform build of an Azure SQLDB. This will take the terraform code and build...
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2019-04-22
By Steve Jones
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Say we have a database that we want to migrate a copy of into...
We are trying to get apps and users off of using SQL accounts to...
Hi I have this view to check if a job is running: SELECT...
All, if you are like me and do not care for the built-in color...
Certain internal SQL Server actions cause internal checkpoints. Which of these actions does not cause an internal checkpoint?
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