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Practical PowerShell Unit-Testing: Checking program flow

Pester offers a relatively small number of commands to Unit-test PowerShell scripts, but these commands have tremendous capabilities. Pester even gives you the means to...

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Responsive Web Design: Relying on the Form-Factor

For visitors to get a good experience from your website irrespective of the device they use, you need to do more than just accommodate to...

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Ninja Immutable Databases

'Immutable' databases operate under the principle that data or objects should not be modified after they are created. Once again they hold the promise of...

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Improving the Quality of SQL Server Database Connections in the Cloud

To access SQL Server from the client, you use TDS protocol over TCP. This is fine over reliable LANs but over the internet these connections...

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Who Broke the Build?

Continuous Integration and automatic builds are fantastic tools for software teams, but only if developers take responsibility for their code. Karsten Kempe explains how to...

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Common database deployment blockers and Continuous Delivery headaches

Deployability is now a first class concern for databases, so why isn't it as easy as it should be? Matthew Skelton explores seven of the...

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The JavaScript Landscape in Broad Brushstrokes

JavaScript has come a long way from its humble origins as a simple interpreted object-oriented language for browser-side scripting of web pages. It's many inadequacies,...

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The .NET 4.5 async/await feature in Promise and Practice

The .NET 4.5 async/await feature provides an opportunity for improving the scalability and performance of applications, particularly where tasks are more effectively done in parallel....

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Caching: the Good, the Bad and the Hype

One of the more important aspects of the scalability of an ASP.NET site is caching. To do this effectively, one must understand the relative permanence...

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Catching Bad Data in Entity Framework

Any website that rejects the users' input without giving enough information to correct what they're doing is doomed to be unpopular. Entity Framework offers three...

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Why Put Your Database into Source Control?

Checking program code into source control is a daily ritual for most developers, but versioning database code is less well-understood. Grant Fritchey argues that getting...

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ASP.NET Scalability: the Good, the Bad and the Hype

Scalability remains an exasperatingly vague term, even though there are well-established ways of ensuring that a web-based application reacts well to wide variations in usage....

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The Mindset of the Enterprise DBA: Creating and Applying Standards to Our Work

Although many professions, such as pilots, surgeons and IT administrators, require judgement and skill, they also require the ability to do many repeated standard procedures...

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SQL Server Source Control Basics

For efficient team-based database development, and reliable and repeatable database deployments, source control is not optional. This book provides just the right combination of theory...

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PowerShell One-Liners: Help, Syntax, Display and Files

PowerShell is designed to be used by busy IT professionals who want to get things done, and don't necessarily enjoy programming. PowerShell tackles this paradox...

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We don’t need Source Control: we’re Database Developers

As part of our long-running series of articles where we ask working database developers how database source control improves their work within development teams, we...

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The DBA Detective: Disturbing Developments

Originally one of the articles in the first DBA Team series, Grant wonders what Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett would have done if asked to...

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AlwaysOn Availability Groups – What Not to do when Adding Databases

SQL Server's AlwaysOn Availability Groups provide a very resilient way of providing High-availability for SQL Server databases, but there are inevitable limits to their capacity....

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Paul Randal: Geek of the Week

Paul Randal and Kimberly Tripp, together with their small team of experts at SQLSkills.com, dominate the high-end training and consultancy for SQL Server. They help...

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Seven SQL Server Under-Used Utilities

There are more than ten useful command-line applications that are either associated with, or are distributed with, SQL Server. Some, like BCP are used often,...

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