Fix For Using Azure Active Directory to Connect to SQL
Hello! The other day someone was kind enough to get in touch with me to thank me for some post I wrote back last year. For the sake of...
2019-03-12
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Richie Lee's SQL Stuff
PoshSSDTBuildDeploy 2.0.271.0 - Now With Better Exception Handling!
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Another quick bulletin about the changes I made to PoshSSDTBuildDeploy today -
2018-06-22
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PoshSSDTBuildDeploy 2.0.268.0 - Now With Issue Management!
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Concluding this weeks work on PoshSSDTBuildDeploy is adding one of the features I spoke about yesterday, which was joining the OperationSummary and Alerts objects to produce a new table...
2018-06-15
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PoshSSDTBuildDeploy 2.0.262.0 - Now With Warnings!
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Continuing on with my efforts to make the SSDT Deployment Report more useful, I’m pleased to say that I’ve added reporting on any alerts that appear in the Deployment...
2018-06-14
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More Changes to PoshSSDTBuildDeploy - DeployReport Information
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This is going to be a short one because I’ve been working hard all evening on this, and frankly I’m a little tired. But I’ve made a change to...
2018-06-12
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Birthday Musings and Deploy Using PoshSSDTBuildDeploy
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It is my birthday: another year older, another year not necessarily wiser. I’m planning on spending the evening watching the BBC and eating pizza. There are worse ways to...
2018-05-31
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Fix For Using Azure Active Directory and DacFX
Update:
Refer to this post instead
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One of the things I feel strongly about is that a build/release pipeline needs to be as complete as possible - that is all configuration...
2018-05-25
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PoshSSDTBuildDeploy Updated - Now With Pester Tests
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Some weeks ago I got the tests working on the CI build for PoshSSDTBuildDeploy. The tests were a bit of a mish mash, however they sort of did the...
2018-05-23
PoshSSDTBuildDeploy Updated - Now With Install .NET!
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I’m currently working on a project that requires building and deploying SSDT-based projects. So it’s been a great opportunity of making use of PoshSSDTBuildDeploy and work through any issues....
2018-05-01
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Execute Multiple Files Using SQLCMD/SQLClient – Which Is Faster?
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I’ve been working on a PowerShell module that will migrate the schema of an Azure Data Warehouse from one database...
2018-02-26 (first published: 2018-02-15)
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