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List of Songs Where the Band Introduces Themselves with Their Names and Astrological Signs
🎵 I’m Patrick and I’m an Aquarius. 🎵
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Using MS SQL Server in GitHub Actions
One of my favorite features in Azure DevOps is the Service Container, which allows spinning up infrastructure dependencies for build process as Docker containers. They are also available in GitHub Actions, which comes as no surprise since Microsoft runs both those shows. GitHub provides some great tutorials for PostgreSQL and Redis Service Containers, but recently when needing to run Microsoft SQL Server we ran into some hiccups, so I thought I’d share what ended up working.
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Pretty OK Xmas Mix 2021
Another year has gone by and we find ourselves surrounded by joyous cheer and terrible music. Allow me to offer you more of the former and comfort from the latter with another playlist of “Pretty OK” holiday music alternatives. This year’s mix contains classics you can’t find on streaming, excellent covers, new releases, and just enough oddities to keep the sickos satisfied.
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Options for a More Agile Data Architecture
The old data strategy standard of “chuck it in SQL” is as low-effort as ever to implement. But as time passes and applications change, hard-set relational data structures become easy to trip over, and the ceremony required to make changes is a slog to step through. Today, new technologies in data architecture allow dev organizations to achieve previously unreachable levels of agility in managing and utilizing data.
This article once appeared on headspring.com.
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