Nominations open until December 10. The Tribal Awards are back and looking to recognize some of the great contributors to the SQL community. Nominations are now open for 11 different categories, but closing soon so make sure your user group, favorite twitter account, or person who's helped you the most this year is nominated.
Matthew Skelton proposes a way to enable database continuous delivery that isn’t as outlandish as it first appears. What can Conways Law and Microservices tell us about the future of databases and DBAs? Matthew shows us a glimpse.
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Obscure impact of switch EnforceScriptingOptions to scripting a SQL Server database.
Phil Factor on the sort of boring expertise that will help you thrive as a consultant.
Computers aren't necessarily more infallible than humans, and they aren't necessarily even going to make better decisions. We still need humans in the decision process.
Tibor Nagy explains how to find the root cause of SSL encryption configuration problems in Microsoft SQL Server.
We have all had our innovative solutions and proposals shot down by leads, managers and directors. This article addresses some of the causes and tips to improving the success rate for getting your ideas into the priority list.
In this article we will take a look at one of the new technology that was introduced in SQL Server 2008 for Auditing.
An enhancement to a Phil Factor puzzle gives you a chance to play scrabble in T-SQL.
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I run this code to create a table:
When I check the length, I get these results:
A table name is limited to 128 characters. How does this work?