SQL Change Automation

Sometimes the tool just fits – using SQL Change Automation and Octopus Deploy for Data Change Control

From a business risk perspective, data change can be just as significant as code or schema change. Sometimes even more so; an incorrect static (or reference, or master) data change can drive your software’s behaviour more dangerously askew than pretty much any bug can. Imagine treating a retail customer for an investment fund as a corporate by Read more

Quick extended properties with SQL Prompt

I’ve been experimenting with Extended Properties, and I found myself slightly annoyed by the syntax of adding and updating Extended Properties. I decided to take advantage of SQL Prompt to store the commonly used code for adding and updating properties. Adding Properties I’m a big fan of naming the snippets the first thing that comes to mind. Read more

Source controlling database users

Where developers have their own databases, you need to ensure the user accounts are configured identically across all development and test server, or you'll inevitably hear the phrase “…but it works on my machine”. Alex Yates describes, strategically, how this might work. Read more

SQL Change Automation

Transaction-handling techniques in T-SQL deployments

How are transaction handled when deploying databases with SQL Change Automation? For the most part, we have resisted putting excess structure around the way that changes are deployed to your database. Unlike database projects that use the declarative-style of deployment, which work by synchronizing a source-controlled model of your schema to a target database, we Read more

SQL Change Automation

Staying In-sync with drift correction

Getting everyone in a team behind a process change is hard. As a database developer, not only do you need to champion the new process within your own team, but you also need to extend the olive branch to your DBA to ensure everyone is on-board with the changes. This is where you may encounter Read more