Data and database management in everchanging technology landscape
This article discusses how the cloud and other technologies help companies to manage their data appropriately in the modern world.
2022-03-23
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Quality Provides Traction/Velocity
Quality is a driver for productivity. Or so say I. What do you think.
2017-02-14
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Agile 2014, Florida
Agile Alliance is holding a conference July 28 - August 1 in Orlando, Florida. If you're interested in Agile development, whether your initiative is mature or brand new, enterprise-wide or team-centric, you will find the finest knowledge, resources and people at Agile2014. This conference is for Teams, Developers, Managers and Executives. Register while space is available.
2014-07-10
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Model Based Testing at Red Gate
Phil Scrace, a test engineer at Red Gate, talks about adopting Model Based Testing (MBT), a technique that combines graph theory and code writing to help keep pace with frequently changing functionality.
2013-12-13
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Insensitivity: A Good Technique?
This article explores the place of emotion among knowledge workers doing team-based design activities.
2013-04-05
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Piracy and Agile
Do Agile IT projects have anything to learn from the organizational structures and laws used by pirates? Phil Factor is not convinced.
2011-09-05
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Agile Practices Meet Database Development: Intro
I think the database developer role is on the rise and that it's better suited for agile practices - but guidance...
2009-08-06
3,345 reads
Easy and Repeatable Testing of DB Code (Stored Procs, etc.) with DbFit
Testing DB code is not fun or easy so it usually gets ignored. But now there’s a super-easy way to test using DBFit.
2008-11-13
10,841 reads
Assigning a value to a variable, SET or SELECT ?
I have seen syntax in client code and in BOL of both using the SET statement and the SELECT statement to assign values to variables, but unable to find anything that tells me when one syntax may be required versus the other? Can someone please help me find these rules if they are documented? Thanks!Examples (I […]
2005-03-09
RE: Deciphering DTSRun String in Sql Server Agent Job
I am needing to decrypt the string (DTSPackage) after the dtsrun command so that I am able to see which package is attached to each job. Sort of...reverse engineer. My other alternative is to recreate the jobs; however, this process is much to tediuos.Up to this point, I haven't found a method to decrypt this string.Ernest
2005-02-24
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