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
202 reads
software development
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
398 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
224 reads
The Change Failure Rate
The number of times that you have a failure when deploying changes is a good metric to watch.
2025-02-17 (first published: 2019-06-03)
1,305 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
249 reads
Can Azure Stack Reduce Software Development Costs?
Azure Stack provides a hybrid cloud infrastructure platform. Steve wonders if this really helps reduce software development costs.
2019-04-24
209 reads
Excellent Analysis of the Boeing 737 MAX Software Problems
This is the best analysis of the software causes of the Boeing 737 MAX disasters that I have read. Technically this is safety and not security; there was no...
2019-04-22
Blogs
The Benefits of Teaching
By Brian Kelley
Even preparing for a class or seminar with set materials takes a lot of...
Power BI, Excel, OneLake – Dreams Do Come True!
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The Book of Redgate: What Our Staff Says
By Steve Jones
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Forums
Website Stability 2025/12/05
All week we've had issues with the site being up and down. There's been...
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I created a post (or tried) in the 2022 Admin forum. https://www.sqlservercentral.com/?post_type=topic&p=4694880 But it's...
Question of the Day
Fabric Mirroring
In which versions can I mirror a database from an on-premises SQL Server to a Fabric data warehouse?
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