Basic Git for DBAs: What's a Pull Request?
Steve continues his series on Git for DBAs by looking at code review and pull requests.
2022-04-11 (first published: 2020-08-06)
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2022-04-11
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Flyway Branching Walkthrough
We'll step through the process of using Flyway Teams to support database branching and merging, where the team split the development effort into isolated, task-based branches, and each branch has its own development database.
2022-04-11
Oracle subquery caching and subquery pushing
In this article, Jonathan Lewis discusses why you might want to stop the optimizer from unnesting some subqueries and how to control where the optimizer positions each subquery.
2022-04-11
Ordering a result set in SQL Server
To guarantee the order of a result set, you must use an ORDER BY clause. In this article, Greg Larsen explains what you need to know about ORDER BY.
2022-04-08
Registration is now open for Summit 2022
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2022-04-08
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COALESCE(), ISNULL() , NULLIF() and alternatives in SQL Server, Oracle and PostgreSQL
In this article we look at the SQL functions COALESCE, ISNULL, NULLIF and do a comparison between SQL Server, Oracle and PostgreSQL.
2022-04-06
Introducing Pinal Dave to new SQL Monitor features
Pinal Dave from SQL Authority has used – and been a fan of – SQL Monitor since it launched in 2008 (fun fact: it was named SQL Response back then!) There are, however, a few newer features that Pinal isn’t too familiar with, and we were delighted to introduce those to him in this short video.
2022-04-06
Understanding Azure Data Factory Pricing
Learn how Azure Data Factory charges you for use and how to estimate what your charges would be based on a few examples.
2022-04-04
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