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...
The...
2019-04-22
I started this series with the title “Azure DevOps, SSIS, and Git” in a post titled Azure DevOps, SSIS, and Git Part 0 – Getting Started. I am renaming...
2019-04-21
Want to get database DevOps implemented where you work but unsure where to start or how? We’ve written a handy blog to help you begin your database DevOps journey....
2019-04-15
Continuous delivery and automation are a couple of core concepts of DevOps. As a Data Professional, Derik Hammer has spent countless hours pushing through the resistance of people who feel the data tier should be left out of source control, automated deployments, and who feel the need to make the data tier a separate work stream from applications.
2019-04-05
This is part nine in a series on near-zero downtime deployments. What Have We Learned?
2019-03-30
A nightly load into sales_fact fails. Ask an orchestrating agent to break down the...
By Steve Jones
It’s been some time since I provided a car update, so I decided to...
By James Serra
An architecture scenario Imagine separate Sales, Finance, Shared Data, and Executive Analytics workspaces. Sales...
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In SQL Server 2025, I have a database with a Database Masker Key (DMK). I want to back up this key and keep a copy offline. When do I have to open this key before running the backup?
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