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Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

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I remember going to the theater over the Thanksgiving holiday in 1987 and seeing Planes, Trains, and Automobiles with Steve Martin and John Candy. My family didn’t often take in the holiday weekend movie releases, but Steve was a family favorite actor already, and friends had given it a good review. Having watched it just […]

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2024-07-20

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Planning a Database Testing Strategy for Flyway

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With Flyway, you can adopt a test-driven development strategy that will allow you to test and evaluate databases, and database objects, at every phase of the database development lifecycle. The further down the delivery pipeline that bugs appear, the more costly in time and resources they are to fix. This approach will allow you to catch many of them before the database change even gets committed to version control, making a continuous delivery process much easier to adopt and sustain.

2024-02-12

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How We Ate Our ​Own Dog Food​ To Level-Up Internal Testing with Redgate Clone

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Most applications have large and complex databases at the back end, making it hard for developers to adequately test their work before it goes out. Having a fast, repeatable process to deliver data on demand is an essential part of an effective software development lifecycle, ultimately leading to improved customer satisfaction. In this article, we’ll explore the journey our own engineering team went on to leverage our own tool, Redgate Clone, to spin up short-lived database instances in containers for automated testing.

2023-10-25

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Testing before coding: shifting farther left

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A term I have only recently learned is "shift left testing." You can read more about this on Wikipedia here. The term was coined in 2001 and generally means testing earlier in the development lifecycle. Hence, shifting your testing left in the timeline. Just how left should you shift your testing, though? In my mind, so early, the rooster hasn't entirely fallen asleep yet.

2023-03-01

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Stairway to SQL Server Automated Database Testing

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Automated testing is a way to ensure you can repeatedly examine your code as you make changes by running a series of tests. Since these are automated, you have the ability to execute all tests with one programmatic call rather than hoping a developer runs all tests. This also allows the effort of writing tests […]

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2023-10-15 (first published: )

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TCP Provider Errors in SQL Server

You're troubleshooting a connectivity issue between a client application and a remote SQL Server instance. The client receives a "provider: TCP Provider, error: 0 - No such host is known" message. You verify that SQL Server is running and reachable on the server. The SQL Server instance is configured with a named instance and uses dynamic ports. Which of the following steps is most likely to resolve the issue?

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