2019-08-21
66 reads
software development
Demo Data for Everyone
Steve thinks having a known set of data for your system is one way to improve your software development process and make salespeople happy.
2019-08-14
218 reads
DevOps and OSS Can Scale
Microsoft has embraced open source software, and has opened much of their code. They have also proven that DevOps development can scale in this environment.
2019-07-17
104 reads
How can we close the tech skills gap?
One of the most profound challenges faced by technology companies today is talent. According to the latest Harvey Nash survey, 65% of CIOs believe that a shortage of tech skills is affecting their ability to respond to change.
2019-06-27
Microsoft, Think DevOps First
Steve has a few issues with the design of the Power BI Service and their format for storing reports.
2019-06-22
187 reads
Building or Buying Analytics
One of the decisions that I've been involved with at the beginning of every software project is whether to buy software to solve the problem or build our own. This might be a quick "is there software anyone knows about to do this?" query, or an in-depth review of the marketplace or something in between. […]
2019-06-08
165 reads
The Change Failure Rate
The number of times that you have a failure when deploying changes is a good metric to watch.
2019-06-03
157 reads
Enhancing your database development using coding standards
Development and IT departments face increasing demands to deliver changes faster, often with increasing complexity and less tolerance for downtime, and without a corresponding growth in team size to...
2019-05-20
Paying down technical debt
One of the cool things that I do as an Evangelist at Redgate is to periodically visit company headquarters in Cambridge. The other Evangelists and I get to meet...
2019-05-07
Really Important Software
Software often controls hardware, which can make it the critical part of a system. That's something we should be learning from the Boeing 737-Max crashes.
2019-05-06
222 reads
Blogs
#DPS10 – preconfs
By damianwidera
I have delivered a preconf on the biggest conference in Asia. The preconf was...
A Memory-Optimized Roundup – T-SQL Tuesday #117
By Steve Jones
The summary from my fourth T-SQL Tuesday hosting for #117. This time I was...
How do you debug your spark-dotnet app in visual studio?
By Ed Elliott
When you run an application using spark-dotnet, to launch the application you need to...
Forums
Sql 2014 sp3 - extra stats created
Has anyone seen Sp3 creating extra unexpected stats on tables after or during application...
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