A major outage from Atlassian because of a bad script has Steve thinking about the challenges of recovering from mistakes. When we are making changes to portions of our data and we need to plan for mistakes to occur and ensure we can restore the data.
2022-04-22
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The purpose of this document is to help design Unix shell scripts (or any programming scripts) with restart capability from point of failure and also to avoid a common mistake done by developers/admins while filtering records.
2020-07-09
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2020-02-11
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In this article author Joe Gavin covers how to transfer files using SFTP with a SQL Server Agent job.
2020-01-28
A way to handle application releases involving multiple scripts and/or multiple databases.
2010-08-23
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This code will let you script a Table or Views structure for source control.
2010-02-02 (first published: 2010-01-12)
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A little procedure to quickly product a script for copying data from one database to another.
2008-12-29
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Yakov Shlafman brings back the world of the command prompt to make life easier for a DBA that must deploy a series of scripts to their servers.
2008-11-06
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