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 ...

Unfortunately, not every SQL database is always available when we expect it to be. When you're creating automation scripts to discover, add, update or remove records from a remote SQL database, you ...

If I have an application that uses a database as its data store (and ultimate source of truth) that brings some obvious issues when developing tests: In the applications, objects should ONLY be ...

My five-point test requires a new release to bring at least five significant improvements to my environment, or it’s not worth upgrading. Each improvement has to change my life in a significant way, ...

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 ...

Data work in 2026 asks for more than chart building. Professionals are expected to clean data, query databases, explain ...

Every day, businesses depend on data to operate. Customer orders, quotes for new business, conversations around products, campaigns for marketing—pretty much every business process today is based on ...