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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Phil Factor on the sort of boring expertise that will help you thrive as a consultant.
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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.
In this LIDNUG webinar, Mitchel Sellers walks through performance tuning best practices, and investigates how developers can use ANTS Performance Profiler to explore their application code and the SQL queries and execution plans behind it.
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In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
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