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 ...

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 ...

In this review of Stellar Repair for MS SQL, we take a closer look at Stellar’s corporate-grade SQL repair solution, ...

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Most enterprise applications rely on the database as the persistence mechanism. Integration tests for these applications require data in the database to run correctly. For integration tests to be ...

I've used lots of methods to transform data between databases and object code. From hand-coded SQL to JDO to EJB. I've never found a method I liked particularly well. This distaste has become ...

How to use the InMemory provider in Entity Framework Core to test your methods without hitting the database or using fakes and mocks The InMemory database provider is an exciting feature in newer ...