Practical Database Change Management (Part 2)
The final article on Change Management examines the more technical aspects of Change Management.
2009-06-25
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System Development Life Cycle
SQL Unit Testing
This article talks about an easy way to add hundreds of unit tests in your solution using SQL Load Test from Codeplex.
2009-04-08
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Software Tool Design: Design by Sketching
Developers can get so used to relying on computers for everything that they can forget how useful it can be in the design process to elicit and refine ideas whilst working in groups, using a sketchbook, pencils and crayons. Sometimes we all need a jolt to force us to take a different approach to solving software design problems.
2008-08-29
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Deploying Database Developments
When a team is developing a database application, it is a mistake to believe that deployment is a simple task. It isn’t. It has to be planned, and scripted. Alexander Karmanov describes many of the problems you’re likely to meet, and provides an example solution that aims to save the DBA from the nightmare complexity of an unplanned deployment.
2008-07-01
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theSystem - Part III
Continuing on with his series on building a game in SQL Server, Steve Fibich talks about some more of the tables and the data they contain.
2008-07-01
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Templates and teamwork
SQL Server expert David Poole discusses how teams can work together and share templates in Management Studio.
2014-11-27 (first published: 2008-05-20)
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Testing SQL Stored Procedures Using LINQ
The need to test a program that accesses and manipulates a back-end SQL Server® database is very common. In many such cases, the application interacts with the back-end data through the use of SQL stored procedures. In this type of scenario, you can think of the stored procedures as auxiliary methods of the system under test; and they must therefore be tested just like any other module in the system.
2008-05-08
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SQL Server source code analysis and management adds database security
SQL Server source code analysis and management add database security by debugging and testing SQL applications. Learn about SQL source code analysis.
2008-05-06
2,617 reads
Connection Strategy for Multiple Database Environments
Greg Larsen looks at one way to design your database connection strategy to simplify changing application connections so you can plug-n-play databases with less administrative overhead when the need arises.
2008-04-28
3,880 reads
theSystem - Part II
Continuing on with his series on building a game in SQL Server, Steve Fibich expands the schema and objects in this article.
2008-04-16
3,092 reads
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