Describing a database version control system using an Azure DevOps-hosted Team Foundation Version Control repo and SQL Source Control, and a workaround for authentication problems when connecting to multiple Azure DevOps organizations.
2021-08-13
When integrating database changes into a DevOps process, the biggest challenge is to standardize and coordinate the different approaches to application and database development. Discover the key tools & training resources to help you and your team.
2021-08-02
Grant Fritchey discusses the relationship between microservices architecture and database deployment and how these two important pieces of the DevOps puzzle, can work together, or against each other in the future.
2021-07-28
How to use PowerShell cmdlets, such as Select-String, to glance at the contents of the application logs, or use them in conjunction with Regular Expressions to sift through log files in detail looking for particular types of error.
2021-07-23
The insurance sector has seen a marked rise in mergers and acquisitions over the past 12 months, and although these can be an excellent way to leap beyond organic growth, M&As can result in challenges with technology. In this blog, COEO's James Boother provides some tips on how, with good planning, technologies can be a real advantage in your next acquisition.
2021-07-14
This statement can be the biggest hurdle in changing software development and deployment processes. So, the question comes up pretty frequently: How do you overcome it? Grant Fritchey explores techniques to understand and coach others towards change.
2021-07-07
When you begin to automate your deployments, you’re also going to start automating your testing. After all, a deployment, in and of itself, is a test. However, you'll pretty quickly come to the question: who is responsible for building tests?
2021-06-23
The insurance landscape is evolving, and customer demands are far from where they used to be, with some of the biggest changes happening in the last year. James Boother from COEO covers how database DevOps can enable the evolving insurance landscape.
2021-06-21
The cloud migration tools and processes that will help you move a database to the cloud, from planning, implementation and validation through to extending existing development and deployment processes to the new cloud platform.
2021-06-14
Director at ThoughtWorks Pramod Sadalage explores trends such as rapid digital transformation and an ever-changing tech landscape, that'll change the way we work with databases and DevOps in the next 20 years.
2021-06-02
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