Options for filtering when generating migrations and when reporting on database drift help teams make the best of tricky database environments. Read more
Looking to level up your performance tuning game? Check out three new videos on tempdb, unstable query plans, and identifying blocking chains with SQL Monitor. Read more
Flyway helps you automate deployments for more than 20 different database platforms. My favorite thing about Flyway is that it’s easy to get started. But although Flyway feels simple, it also offers rich functionality which supports you in complex real-world scenarios. I’ve just published a few videos digging into these features. Limiting Flyway deployments with... Read more
Want to learn Git? In this video I share a student’s tour of really cool open source website– https://learngitbranching.js.org — that makes learning Git fun. The site is totally free and you don’t need to install anything to get started. Read more
In this 20 minute video, we share an easy way to automate "rebaselining" in a database DevOps CI/CD workflow. Follow the video or simply check out the scripts. Read more
We had a recent forum question about Azure DevOps Release Pipelines that prompted me to look a bit into how schedules work in “classic” release pipelines. While Microsoft has documentation on scheduling options, I found that there are multiple places where one can set a schedule. It wasn’t completely clear to me how these... Read more
"Rollbacks" are easily the most controversial topic in database DevOps. In this post, I share why there's no simple solution to the problem of rollbacks -- but how you can still get started with database DevOps and continuously improve over time. Read more
Compliant Database DevOps
Standardize team-based development
Automate database deployments
Monitor performance and availability
Protect and preserve data
Kendra Little