A customer of mine uses Redgate SQL Monitor to monitor their production SQL estate. They make use of the alerts via email and Slack. Recently they started looking in to moving away from Slack as their corporate communications tool, and use Microsoft Teams instead. SQL Monitor does not (yet – see below) have any native Read more about SQL Monitor Alerts in Microsoft Teams[…]
I’m working on a project where we have recently started to use SSDT more and more. One feature I make use of, is Database References [http://schottsql.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/ssdt-external-database-references.html], and use DACPACs as the source of these references. To keep this simple for the distributed development team and have one version of the truth, I keep the DACPACs Read more about Automate DACPAC refresh with PowerShell[…]
It’s a few weeks since I blogged about finding a suitable replacement for Google Reader, but I can say I’ve found it. Despite having a rocky start, Feedly has become a mainstay of my daily information overload. They’ve come a long way to fixing a lot of the issues I found. In fact they’ve been Read more about Replacement RSS reader – update[…]
When I first heard about Google’s decision to close down Reader , I was disappointed, but also quietly confident that I would find a new reader and that it might even open my eyes a little, enhancing my newsfeed consumption. It also meant that I would probably have to spring clean my news feeds too Read more about On the hunt for a Google Reader replacement[…]