Containers and Virtualization Mahendran Purushothaman in Containers and Virtualization Running Container Workloads in Microsoft Azure Containers are being used by more and more organizations to automate build pipelines in their CICD processes. In this article,... 01 September 2020 14 min read
Editorials Annabel Bradford in Editorials How to survive and thrive when watching online conferences Think of online conferences in the same way you would an in-person event … and then think again. Here at... 25 August 2020 7 min read
Career Pamela Mooney in Career DBA in Training: So, you want to be a DBA… Many people with tech careers did not follow a straight path to get there. In this article, Pamela Mooney gives... 11 August 2020 14 min read
BI Vince Iacoboni in BI Clarifying Data Warehouse Design with Historical Dimensions The standard data warehouse design from Kimball with facts and dimensions has been around for almost 25 years. In this... 04 August 2020 17 min read
Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials Keeping up with SQL Server I gave a session for the recent PASS Marathon entitled “Modern T-SQL for Better Performance.” During the session, I talked... 25 July 2020 3 min read
Tools Diogo Souza in Tools Azure DevOps: Getting started Microsoft provides Azure DevOps for hosting your repos, setting up pipelines and more. Diogo Souza shows you how to get... 22 July 2020 11 min read
Tools Diogo Souza in Tools Getting Started with GitFlow In this article, Diogo Souza explains GitFlow, a branching model for Git. He demonstrates how to work with GitFlow to... 02 July 2020 15 min read
.NET Lance Talbert in .NET How to Create a Settings Menu in Unity Video game enthusiasts expect that they can make changes to the game’s environment and that the setting changes will be... 30 June 2020 19 min read
Editorials Kendra Little in Editorials Will We Still be Talking About DevOps in Two Years? While individual buzzwords will come in and out of fashion, the ideas at the heart of DevOps aren’t going anywhere. ... 26 June 2020 2 min read
.NET Diogo Souza in .NET OAuth 2.0 with GitHub in ASP.NET Core In this article, Diogo Souza explains how to use OAuth2 to authenticate users for GitHub in an ASP.NET Core application.… 02 June 2020 15 min read
Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials Too Much Stuff We’ve lived in our current home for 30 years and have managed to accumulate a lot of possessions. We have... 02 June 2020 3 min read
Database Administration Robert Cain in Database Administration How to Create an Ubuntu PowerShell Development Environment – Part 3 Running SQL Server in a container may seem daunting at first, but it’s easy once you understand the handful of... 28 May 2020 20 min read
Testing Julio Sampaio in Testing How Automating Your Tests Improves Productivity In some shops, testing is entirely in the realm of quality analysts. In this article, Julio Sampaio argues that testing... 28 April 2020 9 min read
Database DevOps Phil Factor in Database DevOps How to Document SQL Server Tables When you create a table, SQL Server doesn’t save your comments explaining the table as it does with stored procedures,... 16 April 2020 24 min read
Culture Grant Fritchey in Culture Document Your Pain In this article, Grant Fritchey explains how leaving the database out of DevOps hurts you and your organization and why... 10 April 2020 7 min read
Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials DevOps is Essential for Analytics The term DevOps was coined in the early 2000s to improve the speed and resiliency of the delivery of features... 20 March 2020 3 min read
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
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 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
