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13 best practices for database development in Visual Studio 2026

Aug 20, 2026 By Rosemary Asufi In Devart
Database development rarely breaks all at once. It happens through small changes that seem harmless at the time. Someone adds a column directly to the shared database. A stored procedure gets fixed in production but not in the project. An index is created in staging and never added anywhere else. Everything looks fine until the next release. Then the differences start showing up, and nobody is quite sure which version of the schema is correct.
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GitHub outage on August 17, 2026: seven hours of Unicorn errors and Copilot failures

Aug 20, 2026 By Colin Bartlett In StatusGator
GitHub was hit by a major global outage on August 17, 2026 that began with its infamous “Unicorn” error page and ended with a long tail of Copilot failures, lasting about seven and a half hours in total. StatusGator sent an Early Warning Signal at 13:35 UTC, five minutes before GitHub confirmed the incident on its status page at 13:40 UTC. User reports kept flowing until 20:12 UTC, well after the main site had recovered, because Copilot stayed broken for hours.
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Connecting Ticketing Systems to Microsoft SCOM

Aug 20, 2026 By NiCE IT Mgmt In NiCE IT Mgmt
As enterprises continue to modernize their IT operations, integrating Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) with ticketing and IT service management (ITSM) platforms has become essential for reducing alert noise, improving incident response, and streamlining operations. This whitepaper provides a comprehensive overview of available integration options, categorized by complexity and supported features. It also highlights common challenges, best practices, and strategic recommendations for selecting and maintaining an effective integration architecture.
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ServiceNow Escalation Paths: Multi-Tier Escalation That Actually Reaches Someone

Aug 20, 2026 By AlertOps In AlertOps
A ServiceNow incident that notifies one person and stops isn’t escalation. It’s a coin flip on whether that one phone is on do not disturb. The record is correct, the SLA timer is running, and the whole response rests on one human feeling a buzz at three in the morning.
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Auto-Remediate ServiceNow Incidents: Run Runbooks and RPA From the Alert

Aug 20, 2026 By AlertOps In AlertOps
Plenty of ServiceNow incidents have a known fix. Restart the stuck service, clear the backed-up queue, fail over to the standby node. The runbook spells out every step, and a human still gets paged at three in the morning to follow it by hand. This guide covers what’s safe to automate, how Workflows trigger runbooks and RPA on a ServiceNow condition, how the automated action stays on the record, and where to keep a person in the loop.
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Safeguarding Education in an AI-Powered World

Aug 20, 2026 By C1 In C1
Education is becoming more connected than ever across classrooms and campuses. Students learn through cloud platforms. Teachers use digital tools to collaborate and engage students. Institutions rely on connected systems to manage research, administration, communications, and campus safety. Technology is not just creating new possibilities for education, but it is also introducing new risks. Behind every device, application, and online account is a piece of valuable information.
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Zero downtime: Franck Pachot on his 'migration' from Oracle to PostgreSQL | The Simple Talk Podcast

Aug 20, 2026 By Redgate Software In Redgate
We catch up with Franck Pachot, a longtime database community figure who has moved through Oracle, CERN, Yugabyte, MongoDB and, most recently, the PostgreSQL team at Microsoft. Hear stories from Franck's varied career, learn what makes technical content genuinely useful to developers, how PostgreSQL's MVCC and extension model differs from Oracle's, and what's really going on with Microsoft's growing family of PostgreSQL offerings (Flexible Server, Horizon DB, and DocumentDB).
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Redgate Flyway Enterprise MCP for AI and Agentic Workflows

Aug 20, 2026 By Redgate Software In Redgate
Huxley Kendell demonstrates how Redgate Flyway Enterprise enables safe, governed, and deterministic integration of AI and agentic workflows into database development processes. Local Workflows Huxley showcases how developers can use an MCP server to interact with Flyway Enterprise through local AI tools like Claude. Agentic Workflows The demo presents a future-ready, fully agentic workflow designed for enterprise automation through an autonomous copilot.
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Everyone Feels Faster. Almost Nobody Can Prove It.

Aug 20, 2026 By Jade Nangah In GitKraken
What 554 developers and engineering leaders told us about AI, agents, and the measurement gap nobody’s closing. Ask a developer if AI made them faster this year, and 84% will say yes. Ask their VP to put a number on it for the board, and 39% will have nothing to show. That gap, not adoption, is the real story in engineering right now.
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