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Monthly Archives: September 2013
Common Problems with Backup and Recovery and How to Handle Them
The basic concepts behind taking a backup are well understood, but people are frequently surprised by the many ways backups can go wrong. First, we’ll explore the most common problems around SQL Server backup and recovery, so that you can … Continue reading
Hybrid Databases
SQL Server already handles hybrid data. We are dealing with more and more data all the time, and in more and more formats. As noted in this piece, companies are receiving data in new formats, from a variety of sources, and … Continue reading
Best Practices for Database Deployment
The easiest part of any deployment is running the deployment script on production. But what have you done to prepare that script for production? Was the script tested? Is the script tightly coupled with the application code? The difference between … Continue reading
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Automated Build and Test
Continuous Integration (CI) is a well known process in the software development world, but it’s not often implemented with databases. This is despite the fact that database code could benefit from the practice of checking the changes on a regular … Continue reading
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