In this article we discuss deploying SQL Server containers / images using Azure Kubernetes Cluster.

Using Flyway Output in PowerShell

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Redgate

Vendors/3rd-party Products

How to send Flyway logging and error output to JSON and consume it in PowerShell to produce ad-hoc database migrations reports, including any errors that occurred, the version of the database, runtimes for each migration script and more.

Constant Integration

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral

Auditing

Apple buys a company every few weeks. The data integration for this must be a large effort.

Datatypes and the Default Mask with Dynamic Data Masking - Step 2 of the Stairway to Dynamic Data Masking

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

This article digs deeper into the ways that Dynamic Data Masking works with different data types.

What is interpolation?

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T-SQL

In this article, Joe Celko explains interpolation and covers a bit about the history and what we all did before computers.

Comparing Two Execution Plans

by Emmitt Albright

SQLServerCentral

Performance Tuning

This is a short look at a technique that I discovered recently in Management Studio (SSMS). The technique is to compare two graphical execution plans in the tool to understand what they are doing and how two different queries might affect a particular system, both with the image and with the properties' data behind the […]

Generating Art

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral

Using metadata to drive software is very useful, which means that having clean data and lots of metadata can help create better software.

Building reusable table build scripts using SQL Prompt

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You need a fast, general-purpose way to save the results of a query or batch or procedure into any sort of worktable, such as a temporary table or a table variable or table valued parameter. A simple SELECT…INTO isn't versatile enough for these requirements, and the alternative ways to handcraft the list of columns are slow and error prone. Phil Factor shows how to create a 'table-build generator' that will do all this, and save you a lot of time, especially if you use a lot of working tables in your code.