This article will get you up and running quickly with Flyway migrations on MariaDB or MySQL databases, from PowerShell.
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This article explores how to create and use views in SQL Server 2019 using SSMS.
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Enterprise-scale data integration demands scalable tools to not only centralize and curate data at scale, but also efficiently explore and analyze data at large-scale. CData Connect solves the challenge of data exploration and discovery through virtualized connectivity to data distributed across many data sources. In this article, we explore the Derived Views and Query Federation features […]
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Learn how to perform data deduplication for Azure Synapse Analytics using Azure Mapping Data Flows.
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How to quickly and automatically bulk load test data once Flyway Teams completes a database migration. A baseline migration script creates the empty database version, which then triggers a PowerShell callback script that bulk loads in the right version of the data. It is a very fast way to provision multiple copies of a specific database version, complete with data, for ad-hoc or automated testing.
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Video games would not be much fun without animation. In this article, Lance Talbert demonstrates Unity state machine behaviours to define code running during specific animation states.
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How to add test data to a SQL Server database, during Flyway development. We use SQL Data Generator to produce some "realistic but fake" data and then SQL Data Compare to produce an INSERT script that Flyway can use to load the data into a newly-built version of the database.
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With 92% of organizations now reported to be multi-cloud, a well thought-out approach to cloud migration is imperative. Download our final insights report in this series on database monitoring to find out how 2500+ of your peers are dealing with the challenge.
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