Several years ago, continuous delivery was a new concept being tried by a small group of early adopters. Boy have things changed! Now, continuous delivery, or CD, is a practice that companies big...

If you work (or are otherwise interested) in the world of IT, chances are you've heard the mantra  “version everything". For the last ten years or so the industry has been taken over by talk of...

Team Foundation Server (often abbreviated to TFS) is a Microsoft product designed to assist with your source control, reporting, project tracking, workflows and collaborative software development...

It's a beautiful thing when you can devise an elegant solution to a stubbornly persistent problem. In many ways, that's what DevOps tooling is all about.

One of the most common ways to improve the performance of an INSERT operation is to use the APPEND optimizer hint.

The growing popularity of DevOps as well as virtualization, cloud data storage, and micro-services tools means that the role of a database administrator is constantly changing.

Motivated by reports of the benefits, including quicker time-to-market, reduced costs, and higher quality products, an ever increasing number of organizations are implementing DevOps.

Open DevOps 2017 has just successfully concluded. This year the event took place in Milan and in Rome respectively on the 16th and on the 18th of May.

Database Task-Based Deployments – Part II

My previous post on this subject outlined why it's important to be able to deploy database changes on the fly. This time, we take a look at why developers...

Database Task-Based Deployments – Part I

In today's agile world, development teams must respond quickly to ever changing business needs. Common practice is to use a task management system, such as...