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A Hybrid Approach to Database DevOps
A flexible approach to Database DevOps where the team maintain the current state of the database in version control, during development, and then at key stages generate and test the migrations script that will deploy the changes to the target database, safely. Read more
Static Data and Database Builds
Whichever way you wish to ensure that a database, when built, has all the data that will enable it to function properly, there are reasonably simple ways of doing it. Phil Factor explains the alternatives. Read moreSimple Steps in SQL Change Automation Scripting
Phil Factor demonstrates the bare essentials of SCA PowerShell scripts that can form the basis for an automated process for database delivery or help improve your current process. Read moreDatabase Delivery with Docker and SQL Change Automation
Phil Factor demonstrates how to integrate SQL Change Automation into containerized workflows, such as are typical of a microservices architecture. He shows how to automate database builds into a Linux SQL Server container running on Windows, and then backup the containerized database and restore it into dedicated containerized development copies for each developer and tester. Read more
How to create and refresh development and test databases automatically using SQL Clone and SQL Toolbelt
A PowerShell automation script to build a SQL Server database from source control, seed it with dummy data, document it, and then deploy copies to any number of test and development servers. Read moreBuild and fill a database using JSON and SQL Change Automation
Phil Factor demonstrates how to export data from a database, as JSON files, validate it using JSON Schema, then build a fresh development copy of the database using SQL Change Automation, and import all the test data from the JSON files. Read moreDatabase Continuous Integration with the Redgate SQL Toolbelt and Azure DevOps
Alex Yates shows how to set up automated processes for SQL Server database source control, build and continuous integration using Redgate SQL Toolbelt, Git and Azure DevOps Read moreDatabase 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 committed to source control. Read moreDocumenting your Database with SQL Change Automation
Phil Factor uses SQL Change Automation and PowerShell to verify that the source code for the current database version builds successfully and, if so, to generate web-based database documentation using SQL Doc. 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 moreSQL Code Analysis from a PowerShell Deployment Script
This article shows how to define SQL code analysis rules using SQL Prompt and them run them automatically from a PowerShell script, displaying the detected code issues in a handy HTML report. Read moreWhat 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
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 more
How to build-and-fill multiple development databases using PowerShell and SQL Data Generator
This article offers a build-and-fill method for development databases, where each developer will subsequently want to alter the data or metadata in his or her copy of the database. Read moreHow to Automatically Fill your SQL Server Test Databases with Dummy Data
A PowerShell script to automatically populate a SQL Server database with dummy data, for database development and testing work. Read moreHow to build multiple database versions from the same source: pre-deploy migration scripts
The final part of Alex Yates's three-part series tackles the complicated issue of automating deployments when the same table might have a different structure, in different production versions of the database. Read moreHow to build multiple database versions from the same source: post-deploy scripts
In Part 2 of his series, Alex Yates shows how to use a combination of post-deployment scripts to handle cases where a code object exists in multiple production instances, but in different states. Read moreDatabase CI with Redgate SQL Change Automation, PowerShell and Jenkins
Alex Yates shows how to set up automated processes for SQL Server database source control, build and continuous integration using Redgate SQL Toolbelt, Subversion, and Jenkins Read moreDeploying schema changes to multiple databases using the SQL Compare command line
How do you push out the schema changes to ten copies of the database on ten different servers, as part of a deployment? Read moreHow to build multiple database versions from the same source: object filters
How to use filters in SQL Compare to avoid deploying objects that exist only in the source to databases where they may not be required or appropriate. Read more
How to version control a database using GitHub and SQL Source Control
This article explains some simple steps to create a GitHub database repository and then version control your SQL Server database, for team development work, using SQL Source Control. Read moreComparing SQL Server Databases using DacPacs and SQL Compare
How to compare SQL databases using DACPACs, script out differences and then run a database deployment task to synchronize the schema of the target database. Read moreSQL Deployment Automation using SQL Compare Command Line
SQL Compare provides a command line interface (CLI) for running database schema comparisons and generating a deployment script, as part of a scripted process. I'll demonstrate how to do this with a 1-click process, using a batch (.bat) file. Read moreUsing SQL Compare with In-Memory OLTP tables
SQL Compare can help you compare two databases that have In-Memory objects, the tables, their indexes and any natively-compiled procedures, and generate the appropriate scripts. Read moreUsing SQL Compare with Row Level Security
As you test your row-level security in various environments, you can use SQL Compare to script out and deploy those changes to other databases. Read moreUsing SQL Compare with Dynamic Data Masking
SQL Compare works with dynamic data masking, detecting the differences in masks across tables and generating the T-SQL you need to deploy your masking configuration to other databases. Read moreRedgate Hub
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