Monthly Archives: March 2017
Moving SET NOEXEC OFF in SQLCMD deployment scripts
Currently when we build deployment packages we try to validate that the deployment is properly configured for the customer site to reduce errors. We do this by validating the version number, the database it is pointed to, connections are working,...
Better User Stories Mini Course Free for Two Weeks
Mike Cohn over at Succeeding with Agile has a mini course on writing better user stories that he is making available for 2 weeks. This 20 minute training looks at some of the common mistakes people make at the early stage of...
The State of Machine Learning
Shivon Zilis and James Cham posted a list outlining the Competitive Landscape for Machine Learning over on HBR. Here is the infographic. The State of Machine Intelligence Have you played with any of the open source data sets or...
Deployment FAQ: Oracle Driver and Linked Server Setup
For many of our tools we routinely need to pull data from an Oracle server. In order to connect; SQL Server needs to understand how to talk to Oracle. This is true whether you are using a linked server to...