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Database Feature Toggles

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In software development the concept of feature toggles are used to selectively turn on and off features. They are, for example, used to restrict some newly introduced features to a select group to see how these features work. While this concept has been long used for user-facing application code, it is also a practice that is useful for database code.

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Django's ORM vs. Raw SQL: When to Use Which

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When it comes to building websites, how you work with your database can make a huge difference in how well your site runs. That's especially true if you're using Django, a popular tool for making websites with Python. Django comes with something called an Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) layer, which is a fancy way of saying […]

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Five database DevOps practices for boosting team productivity

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Speed of delivery and protecting data can often feel incompatible, but there are industry-proven database DevOps practices that bring them together in harmony.

Across each of these five key practices, there’s a theme of removing barriers and cognitive load for teams; but crucially, they are also putting safeguards in place to reduce the risks to production environments.

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The Cloned Database Size

I have a small test sandbox database on an instance with default master, model, msdb, and tempdb settings. The database has these files:database file propertiesI now run this command:

DBCC CLONEDATABASE(sandbox, sandbox_clone);
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When I examine the database file properties, what do they show?

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