Fri.Apr 17, 2020

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In Search of Quality: QA Must Be Engaged in Search Engine Development

DZone

If you’re reading this, you’re likely already well aware of the value of watertight QA practice and have a good understanding of what it entails. Yet, there is possibly a team delivering business-critical software at your organization that has thus far escaped the forensic focus of your testing. You need to talk to them, and this blog is a primer to help you do just that.

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New Metadata-Only Column Changes in SQL Server 2016

SQL Performance

The ALTER TABLE. ALTER COLUMN command is very powerful. You can use it to change a column's data type, length, precision, scale, nullability, collation…and many other things besides. It is certainly more convenient than the alternative: Creating a new table and migrating the data each time a change is necessary. Nevertheless, there is only so much that can be done to hide the underlying complexity.

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Top 7 Ways to Communicate Software Testing Insights Better

Testsigma

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” – a famous quote by Hellen Keller is very much valid even in current times, especially in the context of teamwork. The relationship between any two people is considered good when communication between them is healthy. And on the same lines, a team is able to work ‘together’ better when their communication is strong.