A Paste Policy
Steve saw a policy on code usage in software development and wondered how many companies have this.
2023-07-19
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software development
Database APIs
Today Steve talks APIs, which are important in much of software development. He thinks we ought to treat our database schema as part of an API.
2023-05-22
294 reads
2023-05-10
186 reads
2023-05-08
188 reads
2023-05-01
143 reads
Creating Documentation
Who should create documentation for software? In many companies, it's the developers. In fact, in Redgate, often our developers are tasked with updating articles for products on our documentation site. We do have a streamlined process that has developers can submitting changes in some format (markdown? ) and an automation process that automatically updates the […]
2023-04-26
236 reads
A Case for Document Storage
Someone makes a case for using a Document DB rather than a RDBMS. Steve has a few thoughts.
2023-04-24
177 reads
Living With Broken Software
Steve has to use software that is broken, but it's OK. It actually works well enough.
2023-04-03
122 reads
How to Connect SQL Server and Create C# Objects for Data Management
Learn about how you can work with your SQL Server data from C#. A good basic tutorial for beginning C# developers.
2023-03-24
16,498 reads
Building Recommended Software Practices
Do you have a set of practices for building software in your organization?
2023-02-17
207 reads
Blogs
Learn about Modern Microsoft Apps in San Diego
By Steve Jones
I wrote about learning today for the editorial: I Can’t Make You Learn. I...
How To Deploy Fabric SQL and Azure SQL Databases with Azure DevOps
By ReviewMyDB
Fabric has CI/CD built in, but if you've tried to use it for database...
A New Word: Attriage
By Steve Jones
attriage – n. the state of having lost all control over how you feel...
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DBCC CHECKDB Limits II
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DBCC CHECKDB Limits II
I have a SQL Server 2025 database that I want to check for corruption every night. One of the things we do is disable indexes used for ETL loads during the weekend and re-enable them on Monday morning. If we run DBCC over the weekend, are our disabled indexes checked for consistency?
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