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  • RE: Version Control - Just Start Doing It?

    I've seem two approaches and the second is always easier 🙂

    The first is that you have some data generation scripts that can generate test data - these take quite a...

  • RE: Version Control - Just Start Doing It?

    nick.latocha (9/15/2015)


    Thanks Ed - some interesting reading there. Didn't realise SSDT was so useful! Also the SQL Developer Licences are cheap enough for us to move towards a developer instance...

  • RE: Version Control - Just Start Doing It?

    nick.latocha (9/15/2015)


    I'm keen to get our team using source control. However we have a couple of things that are making it hard to understand the best way of approaching it....

  • RE: The History of the VCS

    GeorgeCopeland (9/14/2015)


    roger.plowman (9/14/2015)


    One of the things I HATE about reading other people's code is lack of comments. In my own code I literally have 75% comments and 25% code.

    I struggle...

  • RE: Is It Worth Writing Unit Tests?

    tSQLt is free, the redgate sql test which is a ui around it isn't but you don't need to use it.

    Here is a tutorial:

    http://tsqlt.org/user-guide/tsqlt-tutorial/

    If you get stuck there...

  • RE: Is It Worth Writing Unit Tests?

    cgeswein (7/23/2015)


    Do we have good unit testing tools for SQL?

    There is a tool by RedGate called SQL Test that builds on the tSQLt framework. It makes things much easier.

    Yep...

  • RE: Is It Worth Writing Unit Tests?

    Jeff Moden (7/23/2015)


    Ed Elliott (7/23/2015)


    Thank you!

    I guess what I was trying to get across is that it often seems quicker to go and just fix something but it always ends...

  • RE: Is It Worth Writing Unit Tests?

    Have you looked at tSQLt? It really makes writing unit tests a lot simpler and easier.

    I talk about why it is good and makes it easier to write tests (

  • RE: Is It Worth Writing Unit Tests?

    Hi Peter,

    I guess the point is that if a change is made you can see what tests fail and either fix or remove the tests. You can of course do...

  • RE: Is It Worth Writing Unit Tests?

    I agree that business logic doesn't really belong in the database, thousand line stored procedures should have the logic moved up into the application.

    There are cases though where you need...

  • RE: Is It Worth Writing Unit Tests?

    Thank you!

    I guess what I was trying to get across is that it often seems quicker to go and just fix something but it always ends up taking longer in...

  • RE: Are DacPacs ready for prime-time?

    cool, stick it on connect as it sounds quite serious!

  • RE: Are DacPacs ready for prime-time?

    I was also going to say that in the editorial you mention that it missed some differences - you should definitely raise connect items or post them in the SSDT...

  • RE: Are DacPacs ready for prime-time?

    Dacpacs are pretty cool, personally I think that the internal format is irrelevant, it is a bit like saying that the CIL for .Net isn't good.

    The benefit that we get...

  • RE: Trusting Source Control

    Yet Another DBA (7/2/2015)


    Too many examples of the comments being wrong to trust them.

    This is so true, we have had years and years of bad or incorrect comments, lets...

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