DevOPs and Databases — the one thing you may be doing wrong. 

This blog post is part of T-SQL Tuesday Blog series — thanks to Grant Fritchey (t | b)  – for hosting this month’s...

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The 2nd June 2017 will always be something of a special day for me.
It was the day I was awarded...

Removing an App Service Plan in Azure

In my previous postI adhered to my O-OCD (Operational OCD) and standardised my App Service Plan name to fit in...

Creating an Azure SQL Database via PowerShell

This post is about using the brilliance of PowerShell to script the creation of databases in Azure.

Background:
Apart from the obvious question...

T-SQL Tuesday #90 — Bringing Continuous Delivery to a ‘brownfield’ database system

This blog post is part of  T-SQL Tuesday #90 – Shipping Database Changes.
I have decided to write about  a client’s SQL...

Creating an App Service in Azure that connects to an Azure SQL Database.

Using the methodology listed in my previous blog post on creating an Azure SQL Database we now have a Continuous Integration...

Removing an Azure SQL Database using PowerShell..

In this post we will remove some databases located in Azure.
This related to my last post where I am cleaning...

Moving Azure resources between subscriptions – especially VSTS Team Services Account

For the past 6 months I’ve been paying for my own Azure subscription. My work has a plan but for...

Installing a Visual Studio Team Services private build agent hosted On-Premises

This blog post is about a situation where I  use Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to build/deploy my DEMOs. Those...

Retrospective analysis of SQL Saturday South Island (#sqlsat614)

Now that SQL Saturday South Island (also known as #sqlsat614 on the Twitter) is done I thought it would be...