Defining DevOps
Many people ask about DevOps and what it entails. Steve has a few thoughts on the challenges of adopting DevOps in a company.
How to Integrate Azure DevOps with Azure Synapse Studio
Learn how to connect your Synapse workspace to a Git repository.
Crowdsourcing quality: Can the hive mind/herd mentality help you in software testing?
Crowdsourcing is one way to get a job done. In this article, Devyani Borade describes crowdsourcing quality testing of software.
Testing a Flyway Database Migration
Often, we want to test the new version of a database, produced by a Flyway migration, before committing the new migration file, or to test the same migration run on a number of different databases. This article demonstrates how to do it, by generating and using JSON parameter files to run a series of Flyway actions on any number of databases, on any number of servers.
Knowing When to Respond
I ran into this quote on the Microsoft Learn site, which I thought was a great way to think about how to administer a system: "Without a baseline, every issue encountered could be considered normal and therefore not require any additional intervention." When I've had users file tickets or complain about things not working well, […]
Working with Fail Activity in Azure Data Factory
Introduction In this article, we will talk about a newly introduced activity in Azure Data Factory, which is the fail activity. The fail activity is very useful to stop or fail the pipeline at the specified point. For example, a lookup activity might return no data or a switch activity executes the default block. We […]
Exploring the Flyway Schema History Table
Flyway uses a schema history table to track the version of each database, recording in it every versioned migration file applied to build that version. It's worth understanding exactly how Flyway uses this table, the possible dangers of moving it to a non-default location and how to do it safely, if required.
How to replace an identity column with a sequence number
SQL Server provides two ways to include an incrementing number in a table. Greg Larsen explains how to replace an identity column with a sequence number.
Prevent Accidental Data Deletion in Azure Storage Container with Soft Delete Features
Learn about enabling soft-delete for your Azure Storage containers.
Blogs
In Memory of Andrew Clarke, AKA Phil Factor
By Steve Jones
One of the parts of getting older that really sucks is I seem to...
Leading Through the Noise: Harnessing Data in the Age of Digital Overload
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The New Leadership Frontier In today’s digital landscape, leaders are no longer just visionaries....
A New Word: Anderance
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anderance – n. the awareness that your partner perceives the relationship from a totally...
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taking the rcsi dive
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Parameter Sensitive Plan Optimization in SQL Server 2022
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Minimum Change Tracking Retention
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Question of the Day
Minimum Change Tracking Retention
If I am running this code:
ALTER DATABASE AdventureWorks2017 SET CHANGE_TRACKING = ON (CHANGE_RETENTION=xxx);What is the minimum amount of time I can set? See possible answers