The language of DevOps ROI
How do you quantify the value of DevOps? The answer might depend on what value actually means for your organization, which stakeholder you’re talking to, and what type of...
2017-06-01
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DevOps and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
Introducing a DevOps Workgroup to Farm Credit Services of America
If you are introducing DevOps workflows into a large organization, you’ll need to plan carefully and prioritize tasks, adapt, maintain a thick skin, communicate constantly, and ensure that all...
2017-05-01
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Moving from application automation to true DevOps by including the database
Tom Austin talks about the challenges that arise from trying to include the database in your DevOps process.
2017-04-18
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Introducing DevOps to Farm Credit Services of America
Identifying a need for better collaboration between teams is only the first step to introducing DevOps workflows into your organization. You also need to define a common DevOps goal,...
2017-03-13
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DevOps and “Shift Left” for Databases
The easiest way of explaining how a DevOps approach to database deployment can dramatically speed up the process is to use the term ‘shift-left’. By performing, or at least...
2017-03-01
5,552 reads
DevOps and Database Lifecycle Management
Database Lifecycle Management (DLM) aims to provide a roadmap of what is required, and when, to deliver and maintain effective databases that can respond quickly to business change. How...
2017-01-30
3,197 reads
DevOps and the DBA
Michael Fal is a huge advocate of automation and many ways it can improve the lives of developers and DBAs alike, but you can’t just automate all your problems...
2015-05-20
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What is DevOps really?
Ops and Development people have plenty of ideas for improving the whole software delivery process, but the task of developing, maturing and communicating these ideas isn't often in their...
2014-05-20
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Blogs
PlanTrace Now Supports PostgreSQL
PlanTrace Now Supports PostgreSQL The same plan analysis you know from...
A New Word: the Kinder Surprise
By Steve Jones
the kinder surprise – . the point in your early adolescence when you realize...
Crash-Consistent Snapshot Cloning - Hyper-V Edition
If you’ve been following my T-SQL Snapshot Backup series, most of what I’ve covered...
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Question of the Day
The Distance Metric
In the new VECTOR_DISTANCE() function in SQL Server 2025, the first parameter is the distance_metric. What is this?
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