Mission Critical Deployments
Is a software deployment responsible for a plane crash? That's a scary thought.
2015-08-17
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Editorials
Nope to NoOps, No way to NoDBA
Phil Factor suspect the NoOps movement is dressing up some old mistakes in fancy new clothes.
2015-08-17
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How many environments?
This Friday Steve Jones looks at the setup for your software pipeline. He's wondering how complex it is with how many separated environments.
2015-08-14
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Deploy from VCS
Are you brave enough to redeploy your applications from a VCS? Have you really captured all your code?
2015-08-10
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2015-08-10
118 reads
Teambuilding
This week Steve Jones wants to know about your efforts to create bonds with co-workers and build a team. Does your company do anything to help facilitate this?
2015-08-07
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2015-08-06
249 reads
Cloud Security Issues
The cloud is always going to be a challenge for security, but is it harder or easier than on premises? Steve Jones has a few comments.
2015-08-04
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2015-08-03
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But we've always done it that way…
Inspired by his visit to the battlefield of Waterloo, Grant Fritchey explains the dangers of doing things the way you've always done them and the need to challenge constantly your beliefs and understanding of how the technology you manage works.
2015-08-03
144 reads
Blogs
SQL Server 2025 Generally Available
By Brian Kelley
This was announced last week at Microsoft Ignite and it's been covered by others...
Chatting with Power BI: Who Benefits from This Conversation?
By Rayis Imayev
"Dave: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.HAL: I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t...
A Quick Look at Redgate Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
Redgate acquired a data modeling tool from Vertabelo recently and I wanted to explore...
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The Ending Substring
In Azure SQL Database and SQL Server 2025, if I run this, what is returned?
SELECT '[' + SUBSTRING('Steve Jones', 7) + ']' See possible answers