Evaluting a DBA

• by Steve Jones

• SQLServerCentral

• Career Growth
• interview questions

Steve has a few thoughts on hiring and the way in which you might want to evaluate a DBA candidate.

Azure Databricks Access Controls and Row Level Security

• by Additional Articles

• MSSQLTips.com

• Azure

Azure Databricks has a number of Access Controls and Row Level Security options that we will explore in this article.

Branching and Merging in Database Development using Flyway

• by Additional Articles

• Redgate

• Vendors/3rd-party Products

How to exploit the branching and merging capabilities of Git for scaling up team-based development, when doing Flyway migrations.

Handling Row-level Errors in ADF Data Flows

• by diponkar.paul

• SQLServerCentral

If you are working with ADF (Azure Data Factory) data flows, then you may have noticed there was a new feature released in November 2020, which is useful to capture any error while inserting/updating the records in a SQL database. This article will describe how to setup the error row handling feature and why it's […]

Tracking, Privacy, and Lots of Data

• by Steve Jones

• SQLServerCentral

• Data Privacy and Protection

Apple has implemented some privacy controls for customers, which some advertisers don't like, but Steve agrees with.

Managing SQL Snippet Collections using JSON and PowerShell

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• Redgate

• Vendors/3rd-party Products

Maintain your favorite SQL snippets and queries centrally, using PowerShell to save and update each snippet collection, in JSON, and then converting them into SQL code snippets for SQL Prompt.

SQL Server performance tuning: Nine best practices

• by Additional Articles

• SimpleTalk

• Database Administration

SQL Server performance tuning can seem overwhelming when you don’t know where to start. In this article Robert Sheldon explains 9 best practices for performance tuning.

Azure Storage: Blob and Data Lake Storage Gen2

• by Sucharita Das

• SQLServerCentral

Introduction Azure Storage is the service for storing different types of data. A storage account is created first. The storage account provides a unique namespace for different types of Azure storage data accessible from anywhere in the world over HTTP or HTTPS. Data in the Azure storage account is durable and highly available, secure, and […]

Useless Hackathons

• by Steve Jones

• SQLServerCentral

• software development

Are hackathons a good way to get a project started? It's not clear to Steve that open ended events are good.

How Can Redgate Tools Help with a Cloud Migration?

• by Additional Articles

• Redgate

• Vendors/3rd-party Products

The cloud migration tools and processes that will help you move a database to the cloud, from planning, implementation and validation through to extending existing development and deployment processes to the new cloud platform.