I have worked in more than one regulated industry, and since the banking crisis of 2008, I have witnessed a sea change in the approach to regulation. The UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) was seen to be a toothless tiger. The UK government replaced the FSA with two separate bodies, each with its own more […]
Although it is easy to get started with Flyway, there are times when real-life can trip you up. Discover the fastest ways to restore the previous version of the database, to recover from a failed Flyway migration that leaves the database in an indeterminate state, and then how to adapt your database development process to avoid these problems.
In this article we look at how to use string functions to concatenate, replace, trim and get substrings in SQL Server, Oracle and PostgreSQL.
It might be DNS is the problem more often in the future. Steve notes the attacks on this system are rising.
Big data plays a key role in promoting both manufacturing and scientific development through industrial digitization and emerging research. Integrating big data demands scalable tools for enabling not only big data ingestion and curation but also efficient large-scale exploration and discovery. There is a solution to scale up to large volumes of data distributed across multiple […]
More complex searching is likely to be a requirement in the future, but for many of us, this won't require us to learn much.
This article from Phil Factor will get you up and running quickly with Flyway migrations on MariaDB or MySQL databases, from PowerShell.
SQL Server identity columns are easy to add to a table, but you must understand how they work to use them effectively. In this article, Greg Larsen explains the nuances of SQL Server identity columns.
Lots of organizations are moving to the cloud, but having different levels of success. This change can be powerful and create tremendous opportunity, but it can also be a disappointment.
Learn how to enable or disable full text search for a specific database on a SQL Server instance where the Full Text Search components have been setup.
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