How do you go about team building?
Team building isn't easy, but important for people to work together well.
Continuous Database Deployment with Confidence
To achieve gains from Database Lifecycle Management in general, and in Continuous Deployment in particular, it pays to aim for lightweight but consistent techniques and processes, refining them iteratively in the light of experience. Edward Elliott describes a Test-driven development process for developing SQL Server databases that worked for CD, based on a series of steps. Though the tools for CD may be necessary, they are not sufficient, without an effective structured process.
Top 10 DevOps Operational Requirements
One of the key tenets in DevOps is to involve the Operations team in the full software development lifecycle and, in particular, to ensure that operational requirements are incorporated...
Azure DWH part 10: WPF and Azure SQL Data Warehouse
In this article, we will show how to create a WPF application and show how to insert data to ASDW.
Birds of a Feather
What makes SQL Server professionals stick together? Can we draw any conclusions from this?
What You Need To Know About DR Testing
Practice makes perfect. That’s true of everything, including disaster recovery. If you aren’t already testing your DR plan, you should be - here’s what you need to know to get started.
Introduction to Azure SQL Datab Sync
The majority of Azure SQL Database related features reach their General Availability (GA) stage relatively quickly. There are however, some exceptions. The most prominent example in this category is likely Azure SQL Data Sync, which has remained in Preview since its introduction 7 years ago. Fortunately, there are signs that this service might be finally reaching production-ready state. In this article, Martin Pollicht introduces its main characteristics.
PowerShell Tool Time: The Tool Framework
Start learning Powershell (PoSh) for SQL Server and improve your ability to write utilities that will make your job easier.
Troubleshooting CPU Performance on VMware
Jonathan Kehayias discusses SQL Server on VMware, and how to monitor CPU performance – with or without access to vCenter.
Blogs
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Question of the Day
The Distance Metric
In the new VECTOR_DISTANCE() function in SQL Server 2025, the first parameter is the distance_metric. What is this?
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