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Monthly Archives: February 2016
Should Production Databases Be in a VCS?
There was a great discussion recently on my true version of code editorial. It was interesting to see how some people viewed the idea of a version control system as the source of code, while others truly see the production SQL … Continue reading
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Tagged sql server, version control
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T-SQL Tuesday #75–Power BI
This month’s host is Jorge Seggara, the @sqlchicken, who works for Microsoft. A busy schedule caused a slight delay, so we’re posting the third Tuesday of this month, but that is OK. This is a great topic for T-SQL Tuesday. … Continue reading
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Tagged Business Intelligence, data analysis, Power BI, syndicated, T-SQL Tuesday
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Zero Downtime for 2016
I’ve never felt that zero downtime is possible for a system over any length of time. There are no shortage of companies that seek to prove me wrong, and some are doing very well. For example, when is the last … Continue reading
Quick Tests–Function Returns
I ran across a neat piece of code recently from Gail Shaw. She answered a question on returning the base path from a path in a string. Meaning if I had this string: c:\Users\Sjones\Documents\text.txt I’d want to return this: c:\Users\Sjones\Documents … Continue reading
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