(Pinal Dave) In my recent project with a customer, they wanted to configure SQL backups to Azure Blob Storage. When we were trying to take a backup, we were facing error.
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Make your Visual Studio Team Services dashboard part of your conversation in Microsoft Teams
(Romi Koifman) Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) Dashboards help keep track of your project and drive collaboration with your team. Starting today, you can bring your VSTS dashboards right where the conversation is happening in Microsoft Teams (MS Teams). MS Teams is Microsoft’s chat and collaborat
How to Recover Galera Cluster or MySQL Replication from Split Brain Syndrome
(Krzysztof Ksiazek) You may have heard about the term “split brain”. What it is? How does it affect your clusters? In this blog post we will discuss what exactly it is, what danger it may pose to your database, how we can prevent it, and if everything goes wrong, how to recover from it.
When WHEN went faster
(Connor McDonald) Yeah…try saying that blog post title 10 times in a row as fast as you can
Using the Obsolete Class to Signal Upcoming Changes
(Srinath M S) Often, assemblies are distributed to vendors to consume your code. Changes to such assemblies are always hectic to manage. If we are removing or switching methods or properties in a class, you can mark them with the ObsoleteAttribute decorator.
Don’t Drown in your Data Lake
(Rick Golba) A data lake is “…a method of storing data within a system or repository, in its natural format, that facilitates the collocation of data in various schemata and structural forms…”1.
Custom JavaScript Client Code in Oracle Visual Builder
(Andrejus Baranovskis) Hey, this is my first post about VBCS, you should expect more posts in the future about this topic. Red Samurai decided to choose VBCS as our primary JavaScript development IDE in the cloud. We are going to use it for declarative JS development, similar as we use JDeveloper fo
PsPing your Azure SQL Server
(blobeater) PsPing tool is part of the sysinternals PsTools download found – ( https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/psping) This is the tool of choice when wanting to find out latency to your Azure SQL Server.
Manipulate a SQL recordset row with ROW_NUMBER,CTE and CASE
(Jack Vamvas) Question: How can I write a query to return a recordset and do something to a specific row? I understand this is a presentation issue – because the obvious answer is to return the recordset and then do some manipulation at the presentation layer, but the current situation requires me o
Managing MongoDB Databases with Navicat
(Craig S. Mullins) I’ve written about Navicat tools for managing data in this blog before (performance monitoring, heterogeneous database administration ), so I thought I’d take a look at their most recent offering which provides many useful DBA features for MongoDB.