Introduction to DevOps: The Evolving World of Application Delivery
Today, more organisations are adopting DevOps over older, traditional practices. In this article, Robert Sheldon explains DevOps and compares it to Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
Fines for Data Access
A government is fined for allowing inappropriate access to data. That might be something we deal with in other companies at some point.
How to Provision a Set of Databases to Multiple Azure-based Servers
Grant Fritchey shows how to provision a group of interdependent databases, masked to protect sensitive or personal data, to each machine in an Azure-based test cell.
The 2019 State of SQL Server Monitoring Report
Redgate's second annual State of SQL Server Monitoring survey provides new insights into how the world of SQL Server monitoring is adjusting and adapting to emerging challenges, such as compliance regulations and cloud technologies, while keeping on-top of the usual issues such as deployments, availability, and capacity.
A Step by Step Guide to the Availability Group (AG) Listener
Availability databases hosted on SQL Server Always On Availability Groups (AG) can be connected using a unique Virtual Network Name (VNN), called the Availability Group Listener. When an Availability Group is enabled, clients can connect to databases in both primary and secondary replicas without explicitly specifying the SQL Server instance name. You don’t even need […]
Balancing Hard and Soft Skills
Today Steve talks about the soft skills and why these might be important as you advance in your career and grow into a senior role.
Database Delivery with Docker and SQL Change Automation
Phil Factor demonstrates the basics of how to automate database builds into a Linux SQL Server container running on Windows, and then backup the containerized database and restore it into dedicated containerized development copies for each developer and tester.
Filtering Object Explorer Detailed Information in SSMS
Need to know how to use the “Filter” item in the SSMS Object Explorer Details window to show a specific list of tables that contain a specific string of characters? If so, then read on!
CCPA Preparation
The California Consumer Privacy Act takes effect in a year and there is lots of work to be done. One firm is trying to help companies get ready.
Password-less Authentication for Azure AD Guest Accounts with Azure SQL DB with Access Tokens
Learn how we can generate tokens that will give access to resources inside Azure without actually adding new users to your domain.
Blogs
Github Copilot in SSMS can include data in its memory, simple prompt injections ahead
By Ed Elliott
SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) has recently added support for Github Copilot. This is...
Advice I Like: Failure
By Steve Jones
If it fails where you thought it would fail that is not a failure....
Logged in as a member of an Azure AD Group Error while Deploying DACPAC
Quite a long title for a short blog post ??While deploying a DACPAC (from...
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What is the original database name?
What is returned when this code is run?
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