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In this post I want to cover using Azure Test Plans with GitHub deployments. So that I can cover using them together in more detail. Partly because I mentioned it in my post about using Azure Test Plans for Data Platform deployments. Plus, it gives me a chance to show you that you can use … Read more
In this post I want to cover using Azure Test Plans for Data Platform deployments. Because using it to manage test plans can be very useful. By the end of this post, you will know what Azure Test Plans are and how they can be useful for data Platform deployments. In reality, you can use … Read more
In this post I want to cover creating one Power BI report for both Azure Boards and GitHub. Because I covered it in a session recently. In a previous post I covered using Azure DevOps Analytics Views and Power BI to create Sprint review dashboards. During that post I showed how you can use Analytics … Read more
In this post I want to cover how you can create a dacpac for an Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL Pool using GitHub Actions. By the end of this post, you will know how to create a dacpac for a dedicated SQL Pool within GitHub Actions for your CI/CD deployments. Creating database project for Azure … Read more
My T-SQL contribution for this month is about Azure Data Studio and my coffee machine. Because the two go together nicely when I am presenting. This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Mikey Bronowski. Mikey has invited us all to talk about outstanding tools of the trade to make our lives awesome. You can find … Read more
I think we can all agree that 2020 is definitely a year to remember. Like others mine have been for a number of reasons. We all know that the COVID-19 outbreak has had a huge impact. Obviously, that’s something most of us will remember this year for. However, I want to highlight some positives as … Read more
In this post I want to cover how to deploy SQLWATCH to SQL Server using Azure DevOps. Because I’ve started experimenting with it. In addition, I want to show you how you can do it directly from a GitHub repository. By the end of this post you will know how to deploy SQLWATCH to SQL … Read more