Today, more organisations are adopting DevOps over older, traditional practices. In this article, Robert Sheldon explains DevOps and compares it to Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
2019-07-04
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 wild at a pace to satisfy customer demand, and achieve a better work-life balance for the team, both of which are well worth having.
2019-07-01
Today we have a guest editorial that looks at DevOps and the need for your culture to promote collaboration.
2019-06-28
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Steve has a few issues with the design of the Power BI Service and their format for storing reports.
2019-06-22
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A database script caused a large outage for Salesforce. Steve wonders if you have ideas on how to prevent this type of issue in your environment.
2019-06-21
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2019-06-11
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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, a DBA will be productive and not spending most of their time “putting out fires.” (And fires are never a good idea on a flight!)
2019-06-10
As database changes are added to the DevOps pipeline, unit testing of those changes becomes crucial. In this article, Adam Hafner describes unit testing and how it applies to databases.
2019-06-06
The number of times that you have a failure when deploying changes is a good metric to watch.
2025-02-17 (first published: 2019-06-03)
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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
By Rayis Imayev
"But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked."Oh, you can’t help...
By Steve Jones
I saw some good reviews of the small gemma3 model in a few places...
Why you should connect resiliently to SQL Server Transient failures happen — in the cloud...
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Hi everyone I have a 1000 line SQL query that is too long to...