The benefits of database change management
Using a change management system for database code is a new idea for many database administrators. Grant Fritchey explains the many benefits of database change control.
2022-06-10
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Optimizing my.cnf for MySQL performance
Database systems often need tuning for best performance. Lukas Vileikis explains to how to optimize my.cnf for MySQL performance.
2022-06-08
Why Database Monitoring Tools are Important for Senior Leaders
Matt Gordon is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and the Director of Data and Infrastructure at Rev.io. In this short video, he talks us through the 3 key reasons database monitoring tools are essential for him as a Director, and how they help him to lead a team successfully and productively.
2022-06-08
Database Testing in a Flyway Development
If you can test and evaluate databases, and database objects, at every phase of the database development lifecycle, then you are much more likely to be able to adopt continuous delivery. The further down the delivery pipeline that bugs appear, the more costly in time and resources they are to fix.
2022-06-06
Working with MySQL stored functions
Stored functions in MySQL return a scalar value and can be used in a SQL statement. In this article, Robert Sheldon explains how to create and use a MySQL stored function.
2022-06-06
10 Benefits of Database Monitoring for Business Leaders [Video]
A third-party database monitoring tool is an investment that drives enormous value for the bottom line of your business in ten key ways. Here's how a tool like Redgate SQL Monitor can save you money, time and assist with security and compliance concerns.
2022-06-03
Advanced Databricks Lakehouse Capabilities
Learn about several different aspects of Databricks Lakehouse such as encryption, row level security, visually viewing query plans, SQL merge, change data capture and more.
2022-06-03
Combinations, permutations, and derangements
Joe Celko explains how several mathematical concepts, combinations, permutations, and derangements, relate to databases.
2022-06-01
Managing Database Code Quality in a Flyway Development
In this article, I'll discuss the most important quality metrics for a database development, and then practical ways to ensure that a Flyway-managed database is designed and implemented to a high enough standard that it is reliable to use.
2022-06-01
Getting Started with Flyway and any RDBMS
How to get started with Flyway, as simply as possible, using PowerShell. This article provides a practice set of Flyway migration scripts that will build the original pubs database on either SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB or SQLite and then migrate it from version to version, making a series of improvements to its schema design.
2022-05-30
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