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The IT Jobs AI Can’t Do

Posted on August 30, 2023 by way0utwest

This was a provocative title: 6 ITOps Skills That Will Never Be Automated. In a time when AI use is growing quickly and many people fear for their jobs, it’s nice to see someone writing about areas that AI will … Continue reading →

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Chicago Database DevOps in a Day Workshop

Posted on August 29, 2023 by way0utwest

I’m heading to Chicago today for the Redgate Database DevOps in a Day workshops. This is the first of many on the US tour. I’ll be at 5 of them, but there will be another 5 where Ryan, Grant, or … Continue reading →

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Quickly Creating a tsqlt Test for a Query

Posted on August 28, 2023 by way0utwest

One of the things that I feel is important to building better software is testing your code. It should be easy and simple to test code and determine if a chance or enhancement has broken anything. This usually requires a … Continue reading →

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Power BI and Git

Posted on August 28, 2023 by way0utwest

When Power BI was released, I was working with customers to try and adopt DevOps for their database code. At that time, I thought the Microsoft developers had made an extremely poor decision with the PBIX format in that it … Continue reading →

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