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A term I have only recently learned is "shift left testing." You can read more about this on Wikipedia here. The term was coined in 2001 and generally means testing earlier in the development lifecycle. Hence, shifting your testing left in the timeline. Just how left should you shift your testing, though? In my mind, so early, the rooster hasn't entirely fallen asleep yet.
ChatGPT is in a lot of media as an artificial intelligence program that might change the world. Will it change the world for developers?
Learn how to build and format a Sankey Chart using Power BI along with step-by-step instructions.
The multi-million-dollar question for you and your business is... what is the real business value of frequent deployments? Part one of three in this series on the value of database DevOps.
The first time I spoke in front of a group of people over 20 years ago about a programming topic, I was scared to death. I could barely sleep the night before, obsessing about the material and practicing it repeatedly. When I finally did sleep, it felt like minutes before I awoke, and it was […]
This article looks at Window functions and how they can be used to solve problems in a different way from standard aggregate functions.
There's a common party question about which 5 people would you invite to a dinner party? Often this is amended to include living or dead people, and it's often interesting to hear people tell you who they'd invite and why. Since most of the people reading this work in technology in some way, I was […]
This article illustrates how to use an SSIS external configuration file to enable the properties of package objects to be dynamically updated at run time.
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I have 3 instances of a brand new long running query that are executing on a SQL Server 2025 instance. Query store is enabled. One of the queries is killed by the administrator, one is cancelled by the user. The other runs to completion. How many rows are in Query Store for this query?
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