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SQL Change Automation
Documenting your Database with SQL Change Automation
Phil Factor uses SQL Change Automation and PowerShell to verify that the source code for the current database version builds successfully and, if so, to generate web-based database documentation using SQL Doc. Read morePractical PowerShell Processes with SQL Change Automation
Starting from the object-level source code for a database, Phil Factor shows how SCA can create a NuGet build package, use it to migrate target database to the same version, and publish web-based database documentation, a report of what changed on the target and the results of a static code analysis assessment. Read moreDeploying Multiple Databases from Source Control using SQL Change Automation
How to automatically build multiple test databases, from source control, and then fill them with standard test data sets, using SQL Change Automation, BCP and some PowerShell magic. Read moreSQL Change Automation with PowerShell Scripts: getting up-and-running
Provides a PowerShell automation script that will build a SQL Server database from the scripts in source control, document the database and then deploy it as a NuGet package, using it to update the schema of a live database. Read moreSQL Code Analysis from a PowerShell Deployment Script
This article shows how to define SQL code analysis rules using SQL Prompt and them run them automatically from a PowerShell script, displaying the detected code issues in a handy HTML report. Read moreWhat is SQL Change Automation?
This article describes the basic principles of SQL Change Automation, and how it works to provide a consistent and repeatable way of automating as much as possible of the database build, test, and deployment processes. Read moreBaselining a SQL Change Automation project from an existing database
This article show how to create a 'baseline' for your Visual Studio SQL Change Automation project, from an existing, target SQL Server database, so that the team can start making changes and easily deploy them to the target database. Read moreHow to import an existing database to SQL Change Automation
The Visual Studio extension of SQL Change Automation (SCA) allows you to adopt a migrations-first approach to database source control and deployment. There are a number of different ways teams can get started with SCA, in Visual Studio, and chere I’m going to show to get up and running when there is already an existing development database. Read more
Unearthing Bad Deployments with SQL Monitor and Redgate’s Database DevOps Tools
Sudden performance issues in SQL Server can have many causes, ranging all the way from malfunctioning hardware, through to simple misconfiguration, or perhaps just end users doing things they shouldn't. But one particularly common culprit is when deployments go wrong: I don't know a single DBA who hasn't been burned by a bad release. Read moreRedgate Hub
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