Sebastian Meine

Sebastian Meine, PhD is a principal trainer and consultant with sqlity.net llc (http://sqlity.net). He specializes in T-SQL performance and SQL-TDD and shares his passion and knowledge regularly with audiences world-wide.

Liz Baron

Liz Baron has successfully introduced DevOps practices into Data Platform teams, leading efforts that resulted in a 90% reduction in defects. She is a partner at sqlity.net and an open-source advocate, serving as a maintainer of the tSQLt project.

Sebastian Meine and Liz Baron 29 September 2021

How to successfully deploy databases with external references

Database objects often have references to external databases which makes continuous integration problematic. In this article Liz Baron and Sebastian Meine demonstrate a solution.… Read more

Sebastian Meine 26 July 2013

Fundamentals of SQL Server 2012 Replication by Sebastian Meine

SQL Books

Fundamentals of SQL Server 2012 Replication provides a hands-on introduction to SQL Server replication. The book begins with a short overview that introduces you to the technologies that make up replication. In the following chapters, the book will walk you through setting up different replication scenarios. … Read more

SQL Books

Dennis Lloyd and Sebastian Meine 06 January 2011

SQL Server Unit Testing with tSQLt

T-SQL Programming

When one considers the amount of time and effort that Unit Testing consumes for the Database Developer, is surprising how few good SQL Server Test frameworks are around. tSQLt , which is open source and free to use, is one of the frameworks that provide a simple way to populate a table with test data as part of the unit test, and check the results with what should be expected. Sebastian and Dennis, who created tSQLt, explain. … Read more

T-SQL Programming