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Simon Nyssen,

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Automated Releases Versioning and Publishing using Github Actions, Conventional Commits, Release-Please and Renovate

#programming #devops
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Check the tools I use for the versioning and publishing of my releases

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Developing Ansible playbooks with Vagrant - Tips & Tricks

#programming #sys-admin #infra-as-code
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Do you want to develop Ansible playbooks and test them under Vagrant? Here are some random tips&tricks

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Safely delete large number of records by using a loop

#programming #sys-admin #sql
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Deleting a large number of rows is risky in SQL as it involves a resource intensive transaction. This article presents a method to split that single transaction into multiple smaller ones.

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Generate new (random) integer ID when ID column is not identity

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Tip to generate integer IDs in SQL databases when the ID column does not have the identity specification