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Database Development in Visual Studio using SQL Change Automation: Getting Started

Steve Jones shows how to set up a SQL Change Automation (SCA) project in Visual Studio, and import an existing database. As the team make database changes, either in SSMS or VS, they import them into the SCA project, which saves each change as a migration script that is then… Read more

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What 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 more

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Baselining 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 more

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How to import an existing database to SQL Change Automation

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Moving from application automation to true DevOps by including the database

This article explains the challenges of DevOps automation for databases, starting with how to manage the database, as a set of SQL scripts, in the version control system, and then how to start building an integrated and automated script pipeline for continuously testing and deploying database schema changes, alongside the… Read more

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Database Development in Visual Studio using SQL Change Automation: Getting Started

What is SQL Change Automation?

Baselining a SQL Change Automation project from an existing database

How to import an existing database to SQL Change Automation

Moving from application automation to true DevOps by including the database

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Security and compliance

Database monitoring and observability

Database change management

Productivity and workflow automation

AI data readiness

Database modernization

Efficiency and cost optimization

Cloud migration and workload optimization

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SQL Toolbelt Essentials

Topic: Database Development in Visual Studio

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