Testing Michael Sorens in Testing Go Unit Tests: Tips from the Trenches In this article, Michael Sorens describes unit testing for applications written in Go. While focused on Go, many of his... 20 July 2018 33 min read
Software Delivery Mohammad Rizvi in Software Delivery How to Successfully Deliver IT Projects in a Not-so-Agile Organization Agile methodology for software delivery is accepted at many organizations but is not used everywhere. In this article, Mohammad Rizvi... 17 July 2018 10 min read
Data Privacy and Protection William Brewer in Data Privacy and Protection How to be Accountable for Handling Personal Data The GDPR is in full effect but meeting the requirements may still be confusing for many companies. In this article,... 05 July 2018 16 min read
Data Privacy and Protection K. Brian Kelley in Data Privacy and Protection Principles of Data Protection Protecting data in SQL Server is not as simple as setting a few properties. While there are great security features... 26 June 2018 18 min read
Data Privacy and Protection K. Brian Kelley in Data Privacy and Protection Detecting Data Breaches Data breaches make the news on an almost daily basis. There is no turning back, however, as we are firmly... 12 June 2018 17 min read
PowerShell Nicolas Prigent in PowerShell Hyper-V Shielded Virtual Machines with PowerShell: Guarded Fabric, Host Guardian Service, and vTPM Configuration Configuring Hyper-V shielded virtual machines with PowerShell - the guarded fabric architecture, Host Guardian Service (HGS) for attestation, virtual TPM... 04 June 2018 14 min read
Data Privacy and Protection William Brewer in Data Privacy and Protection Data Governance, DevOps, and Delivery Data governance must be included in DevOps practices. William Brewer explains how to define business policies and standards to ensure... 31 May 2018 14 min read
PowerShell Robert Cain in PowerShell Create Azure VMs with PowerShell Part 2 The ability to quickly spin up a virtual machine is one of the great things about Azure. In this article,... 30 April 2018 16 min read
Containers and Virtualization Nicolas Prigent in Containers and Virtualization Docker Volumes on Windows: Persisting Container Data Persist data in Windows Docker containers: create independent volumes, share volumes between multiple containers, copy data from the container host,... 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 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
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
