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What is database continuous integration?

Have you ever longed for a way of making the delivery of databases more visible, predictable and measurable? Do you ever wish that they would...

9 min read

The Comeback of Migrations-Based Deployments

With database deployments, not all script-based processes are equal. Some use change scripts in a free-and-easy way, and some, which are normally called 'migrations-based approaches',...

11 min read

Database Lifecycle Management for ETL Systems

Few databases are self-contained. They take data from other sources, and publish them to downstream consumers of data. These ETL processes tend to grow in...

32 min read

Database Migrations: Modifying Existing Databases

It should be simple to upgrade a database to a new version. It certainly can be, but if you need to preserve the existing data...

34 min read

Issue Tracking for Databases

Any database development project will be hard to manage without a system for reporting bugs in the code, anomalies and incidents from live environments, and...

20 min read

Better Ways to Build a Database

The purpose of a database build is simple: prove that what you have in version control can successfully create a working database. And yet many...

40 min read

Jodie Beay and the Deployment of the Cross-Database Dependency

When you use AdventureWorks as a practice database, have you ever looked at the code and thought 'what idiot did this', or 'what did the...

13 min read

Implementing Continuous Integration for Databases

Continuous integration (CI) is becoming more and more common in application development. It ensures code and related resources are integrated regularly and tested by an...

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Writing Build vNext tasks for Visual Studio Online

Hosted TFS, now called Visual Studio Online (VSO), has a new way of writing build processes called Build vNext. Agent tasks are the building blocks...

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Stumbling Towards Database Change Management

The scale of change in the insurance and financial markets is such that there is little time for the application or database developer to sit...

22 min read

Non-Breaking Online Database Deployments

For an experienced database developer, the idea of doing non-breaking database deployments while the database is still online holds respect but only a little fear....

11 min read

Managing Test Data as a Database CI Component – Part 2

Once you're clear about what data the developers and testers need to be able to be effective, you have several alternatives approaches to providing them...

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What is Behaviour Driven (Database) Development?

Behaviour Driven Development is not always clearly understood, and the term is particularly unfamiliar in database circles. Seb Rose introduces us to the fundamentals of...

16 min read

Managing Test Data as a Database CI Component – Part 1

Constructing a test environment for your databases can be a difficult task at the best of times. Once you've actually acquired the hardware needed and...

20 min read

Who Broke the Build?

Continuous Integration and automatic builds are fantastic tools for software teams, but only if developers take responsibility for their code. Karsten Kempe explains how to...

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