Automated database context complements semantic modeling

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How automated database context complements semantic modeling while enabling immediate value from AI grounded in trusted enterprise databases. Semantic models have been the backbone of analytics for decades. They translate raw database structures into business-friendly concepts, enabling dashboards, reports, and metrics at scale. But as organizations push toward AI-driven analytics, semantic models are increasingly showing … Read more

A new identity and expanded purpose

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introduces the new company identity, LangGrant, and our new expanded focus. Windocks is known by our customers for innovation and responsive support.   Over the years we’ve established our business with market leading support for Windows SQL Server environments, as the only firm with writable Windows SQL Server snapshots, and for unique Docker Windows SQL Server … Read more

Oracle EBS Database Cloning for Reporting and Analytics

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Discover how Windocks Oracle EBS database cloning enhances production reporting, minimizing downtime with automated processes and efficient data management For the past ten years Windocks has served enterprises around the globe with on demand cloned database environments (also known as database virtualization). While the majority of cloned database environments are used in development and test, … Read more

Langgrant releases first DevOps data repo for Oracle, SQL Server, Postgre and MySQL, for Docker, Kubernetes and database instances on Linux, Windows and cloud

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Providing for data what Docker provides for applications July 12, 2021, Bellevue, WA. Langgrant (formerly Windocks) today announced the release of version 6.0, the first secure, cloud native DevOps data repo. The release extends Windocks Microsoft Windows SQL Server data virtualization and container technology to Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and NoSQL environments on Windows … Read more

Database Clones for Docker SQL Server 2017 Linux Containers

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In this article we look at the new support in Windocks 3.0 for delivery of SQL Server database clones to the official Microsoft Docker SQL Server 2017 Linux containers, along with new support for encrypted credentials. Windocks supports use of SQL Server database clones with Windocks SQL containers and instances. This document details the setup, … Read more

SQL Server Database Cloning for SQL Containers and Instances

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In this article we look at new capabilities in Windocks 3.0, featuring database cloning for containers and conventional instances, images with run time applied Dockerfiles, user driven database selection from complex images, and encrypted credential support. Windocks 3.0 introduces support for sourcing data from Storage arrays and Windows SQL Server clones, with delivery to any … Read more

Modernize .NET and SQL Server Development and Test

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In this post we take a look at Windocks 2.0 with integrated database cloning and web UI. Database clones enable delivery of terabyte class environments in seconds. Last Fall Microsoft released Windows Server 2016 with Docker container support, marking the first shared API for containers with AWS, and Red Hat. Since then Microsoft has emphasized … Read more

Case Studies of Containers at Work

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In this article we take a look at varied needs and challenges different organizations have faced, where the application of WinDocks containers have brought significant improvement to software development results. Wireless Services: Delivering Production Data to Dev and QA Provide production SQL Server 2012 database environments that include 26 databases totaling over 1 TB, for … Read more

Automate Delivery of SQL Server Production Data to Development Teams – Simplify VMs, Licensing, and Support to a Single Machine

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In this article we take a further look at the automation being used with SQL Server containers to deliver daily access to production data for developers. WinDocks is a port of Docker’s open source to Windows, providing .NET, SQL Server, and Java in containerized environments for development, test, and QA. Based on the performance and … Read more