Testing and tuning SQL is an often-overlooked aspect of incorporating the database into your DevOps pipeline. It is important to be able to analyze and optimize SQL performance within your application ...

There’s a very handy new tool from Microsoft called the Database Experimentation Assistant (DEA). The DEA makes it very easy to conduct A/B testing for SQL Server upgrades, providing quantitative ...

I've been playing around with the new Microsoft service, currently in preview and it's time to show off what it can do. Have you ever struggled with a database performance problem or ever struggled to ...

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Many developers are tasked with writing unit tests as test-first design and development becomes commonplace, even on teams that aren't strictly practicing Agile methodologies. Test-driven development ...

CAMBRIDGE, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Redgate Software announced today the introduction of a new and comprehensive cross-database DevOps tool, which allows development teams to include test data ...

Microsoft is making available for download on November 9 the first test version of its next-generation SQL Server release, code-named "Denali." The company announced the availability of the Community ...