Making Deployments Simpler with Re-runnable Scripts
Make sure your SQL Server database release scripts to make life easier.
2018-04-20 (first published: 2015-11-17)
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Ed Elliott
2017-04-07 (first published: 2015-11-11)
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Plan for failure in automated deployments
Failures happen with manual and automated releases, they are a fact of life. Make sure you know how and when to rollback failed deployments
2015-12-31
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Write Cleaner T-SQL Using Version Control
If we only use version control as a way to back up our code then it is pure overhead but actually there are real benefits. We can use source control to write better, cleaner, more readable code.
2015-10-05
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Version Control - Just Start Doing It?
Read a call to get started using Version Control with your database code with a few ideas on how this can help you.
2015-09-15
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Is It Worth Writing Unit Tests?
What's the overhead for writing unit tests? Ed Elliot breaks it down, looking at the ways in which unit tests both take more time and save time.
2015-07-23
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In SQL Server 2025, a long I/O is recorded in the error log with message 833. How long much an I/O request be outstanding before this message is written to the log?
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