Approaching Zero: Wrapping Up
This is part nine in a series on near-zero downtime deployments. What Have We Learned?
2019-03-30
DevOps and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
4 top tips for starting your database DevOps journey
If you’ve read the Accelerate State of DevOps Report from DORA and the 2019 State of Database DevOps report from Redgate, you’ll see how they resonate in terms of the benefits to be gained from adopting DevOps.
2019-03-30
How to get Database DevOps implemented at your business
Starting the process of implementing database DevOps doesn’t need to be a daunting five-year task that completely disrupts your business. Read the latest article from Redgate with 4 top tips for beginning your journey.
2019-03-30
The Problem with Continuous Delivery: Defining Continuous
The IT community should spend time thinking about what continuity actually means in the context of continuous delivery.
2019-03-28
SQL Server DevOps with Production Databases and Git
Learn how to start using DevOps techniques to upgrade your database containers with the latest version of your code from a git repository.
2019-03-11
2,860 reads
Data Governance, DevOps, and Delivery
Data governance must be included in DevOps practices. William Brewer explains how to define business policies and standards to ensure compliance with privacy regulations and bring data governance to...
2018-06-29
2,318 reads
“Full Stack” Means “Part Time” – or Why DBAs Might Wanna Learn DevOps
Brent Ozar explains that if you're going to do continuous integration or deployment, you've got a rocky road ahead of you.
2018-04-10
4,855 reads
Creatures of habit, snowflakes, and integration tax
Why are practices like version control, continuous integration and automated deployment being introduced to application development but left on the shelf when it comes to the database? In search...
2017-09-08
4,133 reads
Protecting production data in non-production environments
In this article, Grant Fritchey looks at the need to ‘shift left’ the database and associated database testing, while keeping sensitive data secure when it is outside the production...
2017-09-04
4,570 reads
Top 10 DevOps Operational Requirements
One of the key tenets in DevOps is to involve the Operations team in the full software development lifecycle and, in particular, to ensure that operational requirements are incorporated...
2017-07-11
4,304 reads
Blogs
Better Trigger Design: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I had someone ask me about using triggers to detect changes in their tables....
AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals – The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Cloud Mastery
By Rohit Garg
In an era where cloud computing drives innovation, understanding its fundamentals is no longer...
Moving to Rancher Desktop
By Steve Jones
I’ve been very happy with Docker Desktop for years, running it on both laptop...
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Question of the Day
What is Between?
I have a table of products in SQL Server 2022. There are sequential items in the table with ProductIDs of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. If I run this code, how many rows are returned?
SELECT * FROM dbo.Products WHERE ProductID BETWEEN 4 AND 7;See possible answers