Ever wanted to automatically convert dates to zodiacs? Here is a fascinatingly simple script that can do it for you, both in English and German:...
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Composing Dates from a DateTime
Here is a simple and generic way to turn DateTime information into just the ISO string data components you require. For example, if you just need...
Announcing the General Availability of IDERA SQL SAFE Backup 9.2
Introducing IDERA SQL SAFE Backup 9.2: The Latest Release of Our Leading SQL Server Backup Solution IDERA SQL Safe Backup is a comprehensive...
Macros – Shortcuts: a macro to rule them all
In this post, I’ll share a script which lets you add shortcuts to macros that you may want to quickly access from various places in ER/Studio Data Architect.
This code will allow you to quickly manage your macro shortcuts and associate them with any existing macros, including those in any subfolders beneath your Macros Directory.
Migrating SQL Server to Azure SQL Database
Migrating SQL Server to Azure SQL Database provides essential benefits. Such advantages include the following: lower cost by shifting expenses from...
PowerShell Script Won’t Run Without Confirmation
When you right-click any PowerShell Script in Windows, the context menu sports the command “Run with PowerShell”. However, when you do, you may see...
Choosing Best File Format (Part 4)
In the previous parts, we reviewed different file types to persist data and cmdlets to read and write them. Today, let’s apply this to a real-world...
Choosing Best File Format (Part 3)
Publishing on – Thur June 22 PowerShell supports a wide variety of text file formats, so what’s the best way to save and read data? In the first two...
Choosing Best File Format (Part 2)
PowerShell supports a wide variety of text file formats, so what’s the best way to save and read data? This largely depends on the type of data, so...
Choosing Best File Format (Part 1)
PowerShell supports a wide variety of text file formats, so what’s the best way to save and read data? This largely depends on the type of data, so...
ERS 19.3.3 GA
We are pleased to announce the general availability (GA) of IDERA ER/Studio Team Server 19.3.3 ER/Studio Team Server 19.3.3 delivers support...
Deploy and manage complex Azure environments
The data management professionals of today are finding their landscape changing. They have multiple database platforms to manage and need to control...
How to Maintain Security Compliance to Prevent a Costly Breach
As businesses and government organizations shift a growing amount of their operations online, data security has become an increasingly important...
Learn about modern data architecture
The data warehouse is an established concept and discipline that is discussed in books, conferences, and seminars. Indeed, data warehouses are a...
Visually compare data in MySQL
As with any database, there are many ways to compare the data within a MySQL database. We can compare data for: Accuracy: If we entered the data...
Learn more about database migrations
Many information technology professionals may not recognize it, but the bulk of their work has been and continues to be nothing more than database...
Discover why data modeling is data governance
Data modeling is data governance. We define data governance as the execution and enforcement of authority over the definition, production, and usage...
Using C# and .Net to access Data Models
In my previous blog post, I shared a PowerShell Script which uses the ER/Studio Data Architect COM automation interface.
During this post, we’ll create an application, using the Microsoft .NET Framework with the language C#, which can also connect to ER/Studio Data Architect.
Monitor top metrics in MySQL databases
How MySQL databases perform can affect your organization. For example, if your site takes too long to load or has too many server errors, it can...
Tips for data warehouses and other extensive databases
Whether on-premises or in the cloud, organizations often ask database administrators to create and manage optimal database designs for data...
DBTA 100 2023: The Companies That Matter Most in Data
The need to balance data safety with new data initiatives, deliver business value, and change company culture around data tops this year’s list of...
Understand the return on investment (ROI) in data modeling
For over three decades now, data modeling has been the leading discipline for understanding business data requirements and representing them in a...
Become a SQL Server Management Studio Hero
The world is full of exciting challenges, and we are constantly running daily, chasing our dreams. Especially in the software ecosystem, it is not...
Using PowerShell to organize Data Model Projects
Years after years we are creating new models. Maybe we save all the different projects to the same folder. After a while, we can have many projects in this directory.
This blog post shares a PowerShell Script which copy|move the project files to subfolders created by using the Copyright Year of the projects.