Basic Git for DBAs: Managing PowerShell Scripts
This next article in the git series looks at managing powershell code in Git.
Basic Git for DBAs: Merging Code Between Branches
This article will cover a basic set of code merges between different branches.
Basic Git for DBAs: Sharing Files Through GitHub
This is the second article in a series on the basics of using Git. The other articles in the series are: Basic Git for DBAs: Getting Started with Git Basic Git for DBAs: Sharing Files Through GitHub Basic Git for DBAs: the Basics of Branches Basic Git for DBAs: Making Changes in GitHub Basic Git […]
Basic Git for DBAs: the Basics of Branches
Learn what a branch is in git and how you can create these, share them, and begin working with copies of your code.
Basic Git for DBAs: What's a Pull Request?
Steve continues his series on Git for DBAs by looking at code review and pull requests.
Moving Away From MySQL
A developer has some harsh things to see as he leaves the MySQL team. Is he right?
Flyway Branching Walkthrough
We'll step through the process of using Flyway Teams to support database branching and merging, where the team split the development effort into isolated, task-based branches, and each branch has its own development database.
Oracle subquery caching and subquery pushing
In this article, Jonathan Lewis discusses why you might want to stop the optimizer from unnesting some subqueries and how to control where the optimizer positions each subquery.
Document yourself out of a job
Some organizations have policies in place to make sure that everything in their IT infrastructure is documented. There are runbooks, procedures, wikis, diagrams, charts, code comments, and more to make sure that knowledge is available if an employee leaves or when disaster strikes. Not only does the documentation exist, but it’s also organized and easy […]
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Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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