One thing people will notice when migrating to using cloud services are intermittent errors occur at a higher rate than you’re used to when running on premise. These errors are often called transient ...

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Databases are often assumed to have definite content. The reality, though, is that the database at hand may be deficient due to missing, invalid, or uncertain information. As a simple illustration, ...

Abstract: The metaphor of technical debt was introduced to express the trade off between productivity and quality, i.e., when developers take shortcuts or perform quick hacks. More recently, our work ...

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Below is a cheat sheet for creating SQL Server client connection strings and finding them in common configuration files. Connecting to instances by name, forcing a named pipes connection.

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