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Practical 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 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 more
SQL Compare Snapshots: a lightweight database version control and rollback mechanism
During the proof-of-concept phase of development work, SQL Compare Snapshots offer an easy way to work out what broke, if a change causes some tests to fail, as well as a simple ‘roll back’ technique to return quickly to the last working copy. Read moreHow to reformat a database in one operation
Inherited a database from another team? Changed your team policy on the way that you format SQL? What's to stop you formatting the code of an entire database nicely, when you're developing it? Manually, the process can take longer than you expect. Phil Factor demonstrates a simple 3-step approach to reformatting a whole database , in a single operation, using SQL Compare and SQL Prompt. Read moreKeeping track of history: SQL Compare and Temporal Tables
Asha Patel introduces SQL Compare 13's support for deploying changes to temporal tables, Read moreHow to deploy changes to Azure SQL Database using SQL Compare and Azure Active Directory
Describing SQL Compare's built-in Active Directory Authentication mode, which makes it easier and more secure to, for example, deploy schema changes from version control to an Azure SQL Database. Read moreHow to deploy a database plus static data using SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare
Tony Davis shows how to get a database, plus any static data, into source control, and then uses the "/include:StaticData" switch in the SQL Compare Pro command line, fromPowerShell, to automate the process of creating a new build script. Read moreAutomating database deployments to and from source control using SQL Compare and PowerShell
How to use SQL Compare Pro command line with PowerShell to automate the processes of getting a new database into source control, updating the source with the latest database changes, creating a new build script for a database version, and creating a deployment script to synchronize an existing database with source. Read moreAutomatically keeping ‘hotfix’ and production database schemas in sync
How to use the SQL Compare Pro command line to automatically compare the schema of two versions of the same database, and then subsequently deploy to the target database any differences detected in the source database. Read moreRedgate Hub
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