Have you ever given up on your brainchild

Have you ever given up on your brainchild? If yes, how did you deal with it?

It's all about Customer Service

Grant Fritchey on the lessons all DBAs can learn from the recent Public Relations disaster for United Airlines.

6 shades of masking your data

The Redgate Foundry team have been researching data masking, and have found that generally speaking there's six common approaches. In this blog post, Toby Smyth runs through all six.

How do you come up with creative ideas?

It takes a creative mind to come up with new ideas. So how do you do it?

Python in SQL Server

The Python language has been added to SQL Server 2017.

The right way to approach a legacy code base

Andrea Angella shares what he learned from attending Michael Feather's workshop on working effectively with legacy code.

Byte Me: Functional Fashion

Package Parts – First Impressions

This article gives an overview of some good and not-so-good features of SSIS package parts.

Working with the BigInt Type in Node and SQL Server

Node.JS and SQL Server are a good match for creating non-blocking, event-driven database applications. Though you can use ODBC or JDBC to communicate between the two, it is possible to run such applications on platforms such as Azure, Linux, OSX and iOS by using Node together with the JavaScript TDS library called 'Tedious'. 'Tedious' is a mature product but it is still possible to get things wrong in converting SQL Server datatypes such as BigInt to native Javascript data.

SQL Server Telemetry

SQL Server captures information about usage and send it to Microsoft. Is that a problem? Not for Steve Jones.