It would be wrong to portray SQL Change Automation (SCA) as being suitable only for epic project deployments, of the sort described in my previous article. It can do smaller tasks as well. To demonstrate, I’ll show how you can use SCA to check that the source code builds a database, and to provide a Read more
You can use SQL Doc’s command-line parameters to automate database documentation, but when you try to automate the process of documenting a group of databases on a server, they sometimes don’t give you enough control over your automated job. The GUI does offer far more settings but when you’re running an automated process, you can’t Read more
With SQL Doc and a bit of PowerShell, you can automatically generate database documentation in a range of formats, including help files, Markdown files, Word documents, or an intranet site of HTML files. Sometimes, however, SQL Doc can’t give you the documentation format that you want, out-of-the-box. In these cases, you have to roll up Read more
SQL Doc keeps everyone in the development team informed about a database. It provides more information than what is in source control, including server settings, and it formats and color-codes the information so that it is as easy to read as possible. It generates the source of all of the metadata of a database, along Read more
