These are tough times for businesses in the EU. Is the UK going to be in or out? Quite simply, businesses are finding it difficult to plan anything when everything is up in the air, and no one can confirm what will happen next. All of which is making many businesses wary of making a decision to invest in their IT infrastructure. Enter DevOps.
Cosmos DB delivers a wide range of advantages over traditional SQL and NoSQL-based data stores, including support for multiple consistency levels, latency and throughput guarantees, policy-based geo-fencing, automatic scaling, and multi-master replication model. However, it is a significant departure from the traditional database management and development approach that most database administrators are familiar with. Discover the offerings that you can use at no cost to gain hands-on experience with Cosmos DB.
In this article you will learn how to create and use alias commands for Docker, to make Docker's command line experience easier and more productive.
With SQL Server 2019 getting closer to release, Steve asks about the hardware limitations that we should have in Standard Edition.
SQL Server contains many built-in views and functions that can be used to understand what is going on “under the hood,” and security is no exception. In this article, Robert Sheldon explains the security related catalogue views, dynamic management views, and system functions.
Redgate are inviting senior data professionals to attend one of the upcoming SQL in the City Summit events taking place in May and June. If you’re interested in learning how your business can benefit from implementing Compliant Database DevOps this event is for you. Find out who’s presenting and register for a Summit near you today.
Phil Factor reviews the various types of database test that need to run during development work, what sort of test data they require, and the challenges with managing this data, and in keeping the test cell stocked with the correct database, and data, in a way that allows rapid cycles of database testing.
See how the ITIL Framework's Asset Management standards make the DBA's job easier. Use the CMDB and DML to keep your data assets under tight control.
This week Steve is asking what jobs you might choose if you had the chance, as well as those you enjoyed, or perhaps dreaded.
Jon Hayman explains the Azure-tailored metrics and alerts in SQL Monitor that track use of the limited compute resources available to an Azure SQL Elastic Pool, and to each of the databases in it.
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What values are returned from this code?
CREATE SEQUENCE NumericSequence
AS NUMERIC(5,1)
START WITH 1.0
INCREMENT BY 0.1;
GO
SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR NumericSequence
GO
SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR NumericSequence
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