PowerShell Robert Cain in PowerShell Create Azure VMs with PowerShell Part 1 Azure virtual machines are created for many reasons, even just to have an environment to quickly test something out. In... 21 April 2018 23 min read
Containers and Virtualization Laerte Junior in Containers and Virtualization Provisioning SQL Server Instances with Docker With SQL Server 2017, Microsoft announced the exciting news that SQL Server would now run in Docker containers. Laerte Junior... 16 April 2018 12 min read
Oracle Samuel Nitsche in Oracle Strongholds of Confidence: Self-Testing Your Database Unit testing and even Test-Driven Development is possible for databases. In this article Samuel Nitsche makes the case for introducing... 04 April 2018 17 min read
.NET Michael Sorens in .NET Git Strategizing: Branch, Commit, Review, and Merge Git stands out among source control systems as providing great support for branching and merging. However, as with any complex... 03 April 2018 26 min read
Database DevOps Phil Factor in Database DevOps Script SQL Server Extended Properties for Table Documentation Learn to script SQL Server extended properties for table and column documentation using a JSON-based approach. Includes T-SQL functions, automation... 03 March 2018 31 min read
Database DevOps Ben Brumm in Database DevOps Introduction to Agile with SQL Server Working with SQL Server in Agile software development can be difficult. Ben Brumm provides an overview of Agile, specifically Scrum,... 20 December 2017 12 min read
Software Delivery Mohammad Rizvi in Software Delivery How Can DevOps Concepts Provide Value in Digital Transformation Projects? For some of us, DevOps means startups, cloud, fast-moving social media applications and Extreme Programming (XP). What about large corporate... 04 October 2017 12 min read
Containers and Virtualization Anand Joshi Yogesh Bhate in Containers and Virtualization Overcoming the Challenges of Microservices and Docker Containerisation A microservice architecture can provide great benefits to certain types of applications that have pronounced troughs and peaks in demand,... 19 September 2017 22 min read
Containers and Virtualization Nicolas Prigent in Containers and Virtualization What’s New in Microsoft Hyper-V in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update With the latest release of Hyper-V, Microsoft has made some great improvements to their Hypervisor. For many reasons, Hyper-V has... 14 September 2017 10 min read
Software Delivery Mohammad Rizvi in Software Delivery Providing the Necessary Tools and Reports for Very Large IT Projects For the larger development project using Agile/DevOps, there will always be the problem of comprehensive tooling and reporting. An all-encompassing... 06 September 2017 15 min read
Software Delivery Mohammad Rizvi in Software Delivery Should You Consider Agile for Very Large IT Projects? Many large organisations are compelled to embark on wide-ranging business-transformation IT projects. They are difficult to manage because, in the... 11 August 2017 15 min read
Tools Grant Fritchey in Tools Automated Database Provisioning for Development and Testing If your development team needs to work on anonymised copies of the current production database, and if changes are being... 02 August 2017 10 min read
Database DevOps William Brewer in Database DevOps Database Code Analysis Database code analysis will reduce the number of 'code smells' that creep into your database builds. It will alert the... 20 June 2017 12 min read
Database DevOps Edward Elliott in Database DevOps 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... 19 May 2017 13 min read
Opinion Pieces William Brewer in Opinion Pieces Personal Data, Privacy, and the GDPR Now that there have been well-publicised examples of the awful consequences of data breaches and data misuse, there is increasing... 10 May 2017 22 min read
Containers and Virtualization Nicolas Prigent in Containers and Virtualization Working with Windows Containers and Docker: Into your Stride Learn how to use Docker-Compose to build a multi-container application; learn how to use Image2Docker; learn the Hyper-V container concept.… 10 May 2017 14 min read
Database DevOps Edward Elliott in Database DevOps A DLM Approach to Database Testing Database Lifecycle Management aims to make the development and modification of databases more predictable. Bugs are the source of more... 13 April 2017 45 min read
Database DevOps Phil Factor in Database DevOps Gnuplot with PowerShell & SQL Server: Automated Data Plotting Generate automated data plots from SQL Server using Gnuplot and PowerShell. Covers chart types, script-from-data separation, business and financial charts,... 27 March 2017 12 min read
Database DevOps Margaret Cruise O'Brien in Database DevOps Introducing DLM Techniques for a Multi-Database Multi-Server System Although the techniques of Database Lifecycle Management can reduce the timescales for the delivery of new functionality to business systems,... 09 March 2017 18 min read
Containers and Virtualization Nicolas Prigent in Containers and Virtualization Working with Windows Containers and Docker: Up and Running Getting started with Windows containers and Docker - setting up Windows Server with Containers on Azure, essential Docker commands (pull,... 07 March 2017 15 min read
