Building Bad Software Faster
DevOps doesn't mean just building software faster. Quality matters as well.
2020-11-09
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Editorials
Automatic Install of Azure Data Studio
Microsoft recently announced that you’ll get Azure Data Studio (ADS) when you install SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) starting with version 18.7.1. Azure Data Studio has been around for a couple of years, and it has some great features that most of us never imagined for SSMS, like the ability to connect to PostgreSQL databases […]
2020-11-07
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Going On-Prem?
Is the decision for a new database starting to switch from the default of on-premise to in the cloud? Steve Jones has a few thoughts on when we'll get there.
2020-11-06 (first published: 2016-07-11)
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The Forever Technology War
The differences in our understanding of technologies can make for some communication challenges.
2020-11-05 (first published: 2016-11-01)
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Maintaining Data in a Flow
One of the challenges of using scripts is maintaining them and ensuring the adapt over time.
2020-11-04
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2020-11-03
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The Separation of Tools
SSMs and ADS are the new tools for SQL Server and the data platform, both of which are now available separately from SQL Server.
2020-11-02
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What is Possible?
There’s the old saying “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t -- you’re right” from Henry Ford. I’ve thought about this more recently while reading the book The Rise of Superman Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance which talks about how athletes have performed so called impossible feats over the past few […]
2020-10-31
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2020-10-30
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Building Quality In
I heard someone at the 2020 DevOps Enterprise Summit conference say that quality needs to be built in. That's something that many, or hopefully most, of us believe. Everyone ought to do quality work and build it into their daily tasks. However, the person speaking went further and defined this in a way I like: […]
2020-10-29
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Blogs
Would You Pass the SQL Server Certifications Please? What Do You Mean We're Out?
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