Stairway to Database DevOps

This series will tackle the journey to using DevOps to automate your database source code tracking, testing, and automated deployment.

• Stairway to Database DevOps Level 1: Setup a Local Git Repo with Azure DevOps

  In this first level of the Stairway to DevOps, you will learn how to get version control set up on your local machine and connect to an Azure DevOps repository.

• Stairway to Database DevOps Level 2: Manage Code with Red Gate SQL Source Control

  In this second level of the Stairway to Database DevOps, we learn to use Redgate's SQL Source Control to save and updates changes to objects, as well as tracking data in certain tables.

• Stairway to Database DevOps Level 3: Managing Code as a Team in Git

  In this level of the Stairway to Database DevOps, you'll get an introduction to branching and merging. Learn how to create a branch for making your changes to the codebase, submitting these in a code review, and then merging the changes into those made by other developers.

• Stairway to Database DevOps Level 4: Creating a new Azure Pipeline (with Azure SQL DB Deployment)

  The first three levels of this series have been the lead-up to this level, automating the database deployment with Azure Pipelines. First, we started with an introduction to Azure DevOps and the Git client. Next, SQL Source Control was introduced to manage a database’s schema and manually deploy changes from the database to source control […]