Version Control - Part 3 - Migrating Objects to Production
Part 3 of Steve Jones' series on version control. This article examines how migrate your changes to your live systems.
Version Control - Part 4 - Rolling Back
Part 4 of Steve Jones' series on version control. This article examines how back out your changes from your live systems.
Version Control -Part 1- Dealing with Code
Part 1 of Steve Jones series on version control and SQL Server. This article examines how you can work with version control and SQL objects.
Follow-Up on Cursor Options
In this follow-up to a previous article, Aaron Bertrand reiterates that – while you should never just accept the defaults – you really should think about which options are most applicable to your scenario.
Shorten Audits, Tighten Security with Minion Enterprise
Minion Enterprise can help you with security management in an enterprise.
Automatic UNDO in Oracle
Automatic UNDO Management isn't voodoo or black magic, although it can seem that way when it isn't clearly understood. How does Oracle decide how many UNDO segments to create at startup, and what is the underlying goal of the process? David Fitzjarrell investigates.
What Can You Do?
Security alerts and concerns are serious, but that doesn't mean that everyone will treat them that way.
Write Cleaner T-SQL Using Version Control
If we only use version control as a way to back up our code then it is pure overhead but actually there are real benefits. We can use source control to write better, cleaner, more readable code.
Power Query Formula Language in Power BI Desktop
The Power Query Formula Language (PQFL) is a functional language that drives the Power BI transformations, and allows you to create mashup queries from scratch. In this article, Rob Sheldon demonstrates how to use it in Power BI Desktop to extract data from its source, filter rows, specify the columns, clean the data, and create visualisations.
Blogs
Monday Monitor Tips: Virtual Machine Usage and Cost
By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve been requesting for a number of years is cost...
Advice I Like: Respect
By Steve Jones
“Don’t aim to have others like you; aim to have them respect you.” –...
Blue Sky Programming – The Optimism Trap
Many years ago, before I joined Oracle, I was working on a major modernisation...
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When running DBCC CHECKDB on SQL Server 2025, can I include the Resource Database?
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