Practical guides and insights for modern data practitioners
In this post I want to cover spreading your SQL Server wings with Azure SQL Database. As part of a series of posts about spreading your SQL Server wings with the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform. You can find out more about this series of posts in an introductory post I published about the series. By … Read more
In this post I want to cover using the sql-action v2 GitHub Action for Azure SQL Database deployments using GitHub Actions. Which is the GitHub Action that is also known as Azure SQL Deploy. Back in 2020 I did a post about how to deploy to Azure SQL Database using GitHub Actions. Afterwards, I shared … Read more
In this post I introduce the dbops PowerShell module for Azure DevOps deployments as part of the community tools awareness month. Which is an initiative that was suggested by Brent Ozar for this month. Brent invites us all this month to introduce a free tool to everybody and to share some things about it. Years … Read more
In this post I want to cover a couple of ways you can update a Database Project within the GitHub website. Because both ways can be useful. I know most of the time files are updated using development tools on your own computer. However, it can be useful to know how you can update files … Read more
After my last post I wanted to test deploying to Azure SQL Database using GitHub Actions. To check that it all runs smoothly. By the end of this post, you will have some ideas about how you can deploy Azure SQL Databases using GitHub Actions. Both for a basic test and more complex deployments. In … Read more
In this post I want to share my recommended Azure SQL Database learning resources. I thought I would do this for a couple of reasons. First reason is because I have been asked a lot about this recently. Second reason is due to the fact that aware that a lot more people are working from … Read more