SQL Server DevOps with Production Databases and Git

Learn how to start using DevOps techniques to upgrade your database containers with the latest version of your code from a git repository.

Data Governance, DevOps, and Delivery

Data governance must be included in DevOps practices. William Brewer explains how to define business policies and standards to ensure compliance with privacy regulations and bring data governance to...

“Full Stack” Means “Part Time” – or Why DBAs Might Wanna Learn DevOps

Brent Ozar explains that if you're going to do continuous integration or deployment, you've got a rocky road ahead of you.

Creatures of habit, snowflakes, and integration tax

Why are practices like version control, continuous integration and automated deployment being introduced to application development but left on the shelf when it comes to the database? In search...

Protecting production data in non-production environments

In this article, Grant Fritchey looks at the need to ‘shift left’ the database and associated database testing, while keeping sensitive data secure when it is outside the production...

Top 10 DevOps Operational Requirements

One of the key tenets in DevOps is to involve the Operations team in the full software development lifecycle and, in particular, to ensure that operational requirements are incorporated...

You’re not delivering DevOps to the database

Where's the Ops in DevOps? Part 1

In the first of a three-part series, guest bloggers from DevOpsGuys look at the real role of Ops in DevOps. Where it changes, how it changes, and why Ops...

The language of DevOps ROI

How do you quantify the value of DevOps? The answer might depend on what value actually means for your organization, which stakeholder you’re talking to, and what type of...

Introducing a DevOps Workgroup to Farm Credit Services of America

If you are introducing DevOps workflows into a large organization, you’ll need to plan carefully and prioritize tasks, adapt, maintain a thick skin, communicate constantly, and ensure that all...