Job Interviews: What is Normalization?
Do you know how to answer normalization questions in an interview? Steve Jones gives you a few ideas and recommends you brush up on your knowledge.
Change Management and Leadership Alignment
Successfully implanting change in an organization requires buy-in from leadership. Rohan Kapoor explains what’s needed to get leadership alignment.
Flyway and Simple Source Control
How to integrate Flyway database development with Source control, so that you can track what changes were made and who made them as well as which objects changed between versions, and how.
The General Database Platform
It seems that many people who choose NoSQL platforms still need relational features. Steve speculates on why.
[Re-post] Tackling the Challenges of Hybrid Estates
It's an oldie but a goodie: Redgate Advocate Grant Fritchey takes us through how best to manage hybrid estates. Read on to find his expert recommendations.
SQL Server vulnerabilities and assessment
SQL Server has many features to keep the database secure, but you must implement them to benefit. In this article, Priyanka Chouhan describes how to do a vulnerability assessment of SQL Server.
The nuances of MySQL indexes
Indexes are critical for database performance. In this article, Lukas Vieikis explains the many types of indexes available with MySQL.
Blogs
Learn about Modern Microsoft Apps in San Diego
By Steve Jones
I wrote about learning today for the editorial: I Can’t Make You Learn. I...
How To Deploy Fabric SQL and Azure SQL Databases with Azure DevOps
By ReviewMyDB
Fabric has CI/CD built in, but if you've tried to use it for database...
A New Word: Attriage
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attriage – n. the state of having lost all control over how you feel...
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DBCC CHECKDB Limits II
I have a SQL Server 2025 database that I want to check for corruption every night. One of the things we do is disable indexes used for ETL loads during the weekend and re-enable them on Monday morning. If we run DBCC over the weekend, are our disabled indexes checked for consistency?
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