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After an outage, how do you respond to the issue in the future? A good review of the incident should be a learning opportunity.
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This next article in the PowerShell Day by Day Series will cover adding help to your scripts.
Gartner® Hype CycleTM 2021
Get Gartner’s latest DevOps and Agile recommendations for I&O leaders. Redgate is named as a sample vendor for Continuous Compliance Automation in the 2021 Hype Cycle™ for Agile and DevOps.
Plotting in Python for Financial Time Series Data for Exponential Moving Averages
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Making Software Decisions
The process of building software for others involves lots of decisions. Ensuring that you are making good decisions can impact how others view your final product.
Working with the Delete Activity in Azure Data Factory
Introduction We can use the delete activity in Azure Data Factory to delete files from both on-premises and cloud storage. In this article, we will discuss the delete activity with the various options available for the file deletion. I will show the following operations with the Delete Activity: Delete files from a folder. Delete contents […]
SQL Server VM Best Practices
In this article we look at some of the things you should be aware of when building a VM to run SQL Server, such as vCPUs, disks, memory and more.
Why pay for open-source software?
The very definition of open-source software means that developers can change the code, which means that exclusive, paid, licensing is not a part of the deal. In short, open-source is free. Free of licensing anyway. So, why might you choose to pay for an open-source software like Flyway? Grant Fritchey explores.
Volunteer For Something
I spent a chunk of the day yesterday, after work, but before working on a new book (yeah, I've got two jobs now), playing with my radios. I was programming the digital one to get it to use my Raspberry Pi as a hotspot (it used to work, now it doesn't). I also spent some […]
Create an RPA Flow that Connects to Oracle Data in UiPath Studio
If your company uses legacy technology systems, you can use the UiPath RPA platform to extend your process automation capabilities to these systems and eliminate repetitive, error-prone tasks of manually updating them. By using UiPath Studio, you can build an RPA program just like drawing a diagram. With the CData ODBC Driver for Oracle, users can embed Oracle data in the workflow. Let’s […]
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Can someone please explain what happens?
I have mentioned this several times over several years. Can someone please help me...
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT) returns null when nothing is found instead of 0
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT Component) AS Found FROM tblComponents WHERE(Component NOT LIKE '%[a-z]%') AND(LTRIM(RTRIM(Component)) = 'GM13622')...
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Question of the Day
Creating JSON III
In a SQL Server 2025 table, called Beer, I have this data:
BeerIDBeerName 1Becks 2Fat Tire 3Mac n Jacks 4Alaskan Amber 8KirinI run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG(
BeerID: BeerName )
FROM beer;
What are the results? See possible answers