On Database Migrations and Agility
It always surprises me when Application programmers tell me that all 'Agile' techniques are directly applicable to database development. Ideally, yes; but reality gets in the way.
2012-01-09
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Editorials
The Stubborn DBA
Today we have a guest editorial from Phil Factor. Phil wonders why so many people in technology can be stubborn. Are you a stubborn DBA?
2012-01-09
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Read-only Data
Today's poll looks at read only data and how you handle the backup and recovery of this data.
2012-01-06
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Are Auto-Updates Good?
Internet Explorer is going to get automatic updates soon and Steve Jones thinks it's a mixed blessing.
2012-01-05
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Truth and Demos
Today Steve Jones reminds us that we are all selling something in technology, even if it's our reputation. We ought to be truthful in our dealings with our clients.
2012-01-04
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Cloud Patches
The cloud changes the way that we can administer and deploy changes to our systems. Steve Jones highlights an interesting idea, and hopes we get similar techniques applied to databases in the cloud.
2012-01-03
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SharePoint - Subversive?
A reflective editorial on how SharePoints and other collaborative work spaces are getting used.
2012-01-02
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Voluntary Constraint?
In which Phil Factor argues that Domain Constraints are a fundamental part of the relational database. If he had to sacrifice a feature of relational databases, it wouldn’t be domain constraints.
2012-01-02
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The Data Resolutions
The last Friday poll of 2011 has Steve Jones asking about what you want out of 2012.
2011-12-30
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2011-12-29
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Blogs
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Accessing the Data API Builder MCP Server from VS Code
By Steve Jones
I recently started playing with the MCP Server for SQL Server, which is a...
From DBA or Data Engineer to AI Engineer: A Realistic Path
If you spend your days tuning queries, managing pipelines, or keeping a production database...
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