DBA to Data Engineer
A title change can come with a salary bump in some cases, but you might need to work to achieve both of those. Steve has a few ideas today.
Getting More Information From the String or Binary Data Truncated Error
Get more information from the string or binary data truncated message to help troubleshoot data problems on SQL Server 2016, 2017, and 2019.
Introduction to Testing a Flyway Development
How to use Flyway Teams to run basic tests whenever it successfully executes a migration, checking that all the business processes supported by our database always produce the expected results.
Power BI Dynamic X and Y Axis Using Groupings in Field Parameters
In this step-by-step article, learn how to dynamically select what displays on the X or Y axis of a Power BI chart.
How to Visualize Python Charts in Power BI
This article will show how you can code in Python and produce a chart for Power BI.
Reducing Debt and Increasing Security
DevOps is often thought of as bringing more features to customers, but it can also help security.
Metrics that matter for IT organizations on an agile journey
Measuring the wrong things is worse than not measuring anything. In this article, Mallika Gunturu explains the right things to measure for agile.
Re-baselining a Database using Flyway Desktop
Over time, Flyway projects can accumulate a lot of migration scripts, with many database objects being created, altered, and dropped across many files. Tonie Huizer explains why you might want to create a new baseline migration file to create the latest version of a Flyway-managed database in a single leap, and how to persuade Flyway Desktop to do it.
SQL Standard Confusion
The whole universe, the well-guarded people—may they all query databases together in a single language!
Data Flow Formatters - Flatten, Parse and Stringify in Azure Data Factory
This article discusses the data flow formatters, Flatten, Parse, and Stringify, which can be useful when dealing with JSON data.
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #192: SQL Server 2025 Backup Changes
By Steve Jones
I hosted this month, but I decided to put my own entry in as...
Why Databases Still Fascinate Me
By Chris Yates
I get asked a lot about why or how I began working with databases...
Monday Monitor Tips: ServiceNow Integration
By Steve Jones
Earlier this year I visited a customer that was using the Redgate Monitor webhook...
Forums
How Do I Choose a Good Ophthalmologist in Dubai for Eye Checkups?
Choosing the right Ophthalmologist in Dubai starts with checking credentials, experience with children, and...
SQL Server 2025 Unveiled: The AI-Ready Enterprise Database with Microsoft Fabric Integration
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Server 2025 Unveiled: The...
Cannot get KB959420
Hi, we lost our sever sql2000 To restore database to a new one we...
Question of the Day
The New Database CheckDB
I run this code:
create database experiment
go
use Experiment
go
select DATABASEPROPERTYEX('Experiment', 'LastGoodCheckDbTime')
What is returned? See possible answers