Containers and Virtualization Nicolas Prigent in Containers and Virtualization Working with Windows Containers and Docker: Save the Data Docker continues to make improvements in their products running on Windows. In this article, Nicolas Prigent explains how to share... 25 April 2018 15 min read
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
Data Privacy and Protection Hugo Kornelis in Data Privacy and Protection Execution Plans and Data Protection One of the most important tools for query tuning is the ability to view execution plans. They are even portable;... 10 April 2018 23 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
Opinion Pieces William Brewer in Opinion Pieces Data Retention: An Inexact Art A myriad of laws regulate data retention and generally compete with each other. William Brewer provides an introduction to the... 19 March 2018 16 min read
Database DevOps Phil Factor in Database DevOps Scripting the Description of Database Tables Using Extended Properties Stored procedures, for example, are very easy to document. The comment block at the beginning stays with the code and... 03 March 2018 28 min read
Opinion Pieces William Brewer in Opinion Pieces Questions About Data Breaches that You Were Too Shy to Ask News reports about data breaches are common occurrences. Even the companies that exist to keep our data safe are not... 09 February 2018 16 min read
Opinion Pieces William Brewer in Opinion Pieces Questions about Data Governance that You Were Too Shy to Ask A company’s data is one of its most valuable and important resources. Managing and protecting that data are big responsibilities,... 24 January 2018 16 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
Opinion Pieces William Brewer in Opinion Pieces Questions about Data Masking That You Were Too Shy to Ask The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will be in effect in May of 2018. Data masking is one technique that... 30 November 2017 10 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
