Database DevOps William Brewer in Database DevOps The Staging Phase of Deployment Despite some humorous examples of deployments gone wrong, failures are not funny. William Brewer explains why staging is so important... 17 March 2020 12 min read
Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials Virtual Reality As a Star Trek: The Next Generation fan, I am intrigued with the idea of a Holodeck. The Holodeck on... 11 March 2020 3 min read
.NET Lance Talbert in .NET Creating Multiplayer Games with Unity and PUN Many games today involve more than one player, but creating a multiplayer game is not easy. In this article, Lance... 10 March 2020 18 min read
PowerShell Greg Moore in PowerShell SQL Server and Undocumented Extended Procedures Smart DBAs automate tasks whenever possible. In this article, Greg Moore shows the need to use caution when using undocumented... 03 March 2020 11 min read
Database Administration Robert Cain in Database Administration How to Create an Ubuntu PowerShell Development Environment – Part 2 You’ll need several tools in place to effectively work with SQL Server in Linux. In this article, Robert Cain explains... 03 March 2020 13 min read
NoSQL Shel Burkow in NoSQL Translating a SQL Server Schema into a Cassandra Table: Part II Integrity Constraints Complex integrity constraints are more challenging to enforce in Cassandra than they are in a relational database. In this article,... 02 March 2020 16 min read
Data Science Dennes Torres in Data Science SQL Server Machine Learning 2019: Working with Security Changes SQL Server Machine Learning allows you to run R and Python scripts from SQL Server. When SQL Server 2019 was... 21 February 2020 17 min read
Editorials Samuel Nitsche in Editorials The #causeascene Guiding Principles to Do Less Harm in Tech In the last editorial, I wrote about how it is obvious from what we see and read that Tech is... 18 February 2020 3 min read
Editorials Samuel Nitsche in Editorials Why Empathy is Not Enough in Tech In 2020, my main personal goal is to reduce doing harm, and this has been mainly inspired by the work... 10 February 2020 3 min read
Database DevOps Phil Factor in Database DevOps But the Database Worked in Development! Checking for Duplicates As developers should not have access to production data, it’s possible that duplicate values can sneak in during migrations. In... 10 February 2020 13 min read
Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials Key Findings from the 2020 Database DevOps Survey Each year Redgate Software runs a survey to learn more about how organizations practice DevOps, especially when it relates to... 04 February 2020 3 min read
.NET Lance Talbert in .NET Saving Game Data with Unity One of the most critical things that a game must do is to save data like the preferences and score.... 03 February 2020 12 min read
Database DevOps Robert Cain in Database DevOps How to Create an Ubuntu PowerShell Development Environment – Part 1 Since SQL Server now runs in Linux, more database professionals will begin to learn this operating system. In this article,... 21 January 2020 28 min read
Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials Capturing a Mind When the Netflix series Black Mirror began in 2011, I watched a few episodes. Recently, I “binge-watched” more to catch... 08 January 2020 3 min read
Database DevOps Phil Factor in Database DevOps But the Database Worked in Development! Preventing Broken Constraints Database table constraints such as foreign keys and default values ensure reliability of the data. In this article, Phil Factor... 08 January 2020 19 min read
PowerShell Greg Moore in PowerShell Comments and More in PowerShell Comments are helpful when programming in any language, and PowerShell is no exception. In this article, Greg Moore demonstrates how... 03 January 2020 12 min read
Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials Why the Database Must be Part of DevOps According to Microsoft, DevOps is “the union of people, process, and products to enable continuous delivery of value to our... 01 January 2020 3 min read
NoSQL Shel Burkow in NoSQL Translating a SQL Server Schema into a Cassandra Table: Part I Problem Space and Cassandra Primary Key As many companies consider moving data to NoSQL, Cassandra may be the choice. In this series, Shel Burkow discusses design... 18 December 2019 13 min read
PowerShell Allen White in PowerShell Portable Objects in PowerShell with CLIXML PowerShell is a widely used tool for administrators. In this article, Allen White shows how to export objects using CLIXML... 17 December 2019 16 min read
.NET Lance Talbert in .NET Debugging in Unity Developers probably spend as much time debugging as they do writing code. In this article, Lance Talbert demonstrates how to... 13 December 2019 15 min read
