SQL Provision and Azure SQL Database: Creating Local Development and Test Databases

As more businesses start to use cloud-based platforms, such as Azure SQL Database, as their primary database solution, they find that they still need to support on-premise workflows for development and test databases. This is a perfect task for SQL Provision. Read more

How to Apply Non-Standard SQL Formatting Using SQL Prompt

SQL Prompt not only will format your code exactly as you want, but will also help you switch quickly to an alternative style, or to apply exceptions to certain parts of a SQL script, where your preferred style isn't what's required. Read more

The Database DevOps Challenges SQL Provision Solves

SQL Provision helps to accelerate the delivery of database changes, by enabling an organization to provide database copies, and the right data, to all parts of the deployment pipeline that need it, with a light footprint, and securely. Tony Davis explains how. Read more

The Whys and Wherefores of Untrusted or Disabled Constraints

Having untrusted or disabled FOREIGN KEY or CHECK constraints in your databases will degrade data consistency and integrity and can cause query performance problems. Phil Factor explains how to detect these and other table-related issues, during development, before they cause trouble further down the line. Read more

On Quickly Investigating a SQL Monitor Custom Security Alert

Phil Factor offers a clever way to report on a SQL Server intrusion, with a query that shows a full narrative description of all the security-related changes that have been detected by a set of SQL Monitor custom metrics. Read more

Picking over the Bones of a SQL Injection Attack

The best way to learn how to protect your databases from SQL Injection is to to see it in action and confront its consequences. This article tells the story of an attack on a vulnerable SQL Server REST interface, explaining how the attack unfolds, the mistakes that made it possible, and SQL Monitor's role as the 'canary in the mine'. Read more

SQL Source Control v7 Enhancements

Stephanie Herr summarizes what's new in SQL Source Control v7, including support for Git hooks, Git repositories hosted on Azure DevOps, and pre- and post-deployment scripts. Read more

Compliant Database DevOps for SQL Server using Redgate Tools

Stephanie Herr explains all the ways in which Redgate tools make it easier for you to include your database in your DevOps processes, so that the development, versioning, release, and on-going monitoring processes accommodate the special requirements of the database. Read more

Database Continuous Integration with SQL Clone and SQL Change Automation

Phil Factor provides the basis for a Database Continuous Integration process, using SQL Change Automation to build the latest database, and then SQL Clone to distribute it to the various team-based servers that need it. Having honed the process, you can run it every time someone commits a database change. Read more

Build and fill a database using JSON and SQL Change Automation

Phil Factor demonstrates how to export data from a database, as JSON files, validate it using JSON Schema, then build a fresh development copy of the database using SQL Change Automation, and import all the test data from the JSON files. Read more

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