Presentation/Webinar

How to HADR Your SQL Jobs

2020-06-292022-12-17

You have a couple or more SQL Servers with some sort of High Availability solution between them (AlwaysOn Availability Groups, Database Mirroring, etc.). You also have a bunch of scheduled jobs that you need to run on the Primary server.

But wait…. How would you make these jobs run only on the Primary server? After all, if they try to run on the Secondary, they might fail (whether because the database is inaccessible or because it’s read-only). Additionally, you would need to consider a failover where the Primary and Secondary servers would switch roles.

This means that you would have to create these jobs on both servers, and then implement some sort of mechanism that would detect, for each job, whether the instance it’s being executed at is currently the Primary.

There are a few ways to go about doing this. During this session, we will cover possible solutions, downfalls, tricks, and much more.

Advanced Dynamic Search Queries

2020-04-282022-12-17

What is the solution for implementing truly dynamic search queries? Not just a stored procedure with optional parameters, but something even more dynamic than that? Let the end-user choose the exact fields and, more importantly, the operator types to use on them, in order to get the results that they need. And how do you achieve this level of dynamic interactivity without risking SQL injection? This presentation will answer these questions and give you a solution involving some advanced T-SQL martial arts!

CI and CD with SSDT and living to tell about it

CI and CD with SSDT Part 1 – Development Lifecycle Basics for DBAs

2020-04-282024-09-16

What is source control? What is version history? What are unit tests? What do CI and CD even mean, and what the heck is an Artifact?? In this new era of Agile development, DevOps, DataOps, and other weird buzzwords, we the DBAs gotta learn to keep up. It’s time to add our monstrous database into the continuous integration pipeline. But first, we need to know what we’re getting into and need to familiarize ourselves with the terms and methodologies of the world of software development lifecycles.

In this session, the first of a multi-part series, we will learn what is Git Source Control? What are CI/CD Pipelines? What are Unit Tests? These are all topics that each DBA must familiarize themselves with before integrating with the software development lifecycle.