Tag: Addon

SQL Saturday Parma – English Slide decks available to download

My SQL Saturday Parma slide decks are available to download on SlideShare.

The main topic of those presentations is database lifecycle management (DLM) on SQL Server.
Concepts: ALM/DLM, team work, differences between code and databases.
We’ve demonstrated the usage of the following tools: Visual Studio with SQL Server Data Tools, Red-Gate ed ApexSQL.
Second session: “Unit testing su database“.
Concepts: unit testing, database testing vs code testing.
We’ve demonstrated testing tools like Red-Gate SQL Test and Visual Studio Unit test projects, and the TSQLUnit framework.
Additionally, I’ve created a set of sample scripts with T-SQL and TSQLUnit on MSDN Code Samples.
Stay Tuned! 🙂

Suggestion for SQL Prompt and SQL Test (Red-Gate)

Recently I moved my job on ALM topics, focusing on Source Control Management and Testing, in order to reach Continuous Integration on database development. I evaluated some tools and Red-Gate was my first choice. In this post I’d like to share the suggestions I made on two of the most important tool I’m using atm:

  • SQL Prompt (productivity tool for code formatting, intellisense, code inspection, etc.)

suggestions: TODO highlights. I’d like to improve readability of TODO and HACK comments, like in the following picture:

todo
 For ReSharper user (and Visual Studio ones), this is very familiar.
 
  • SQL Test (addon for SQL Server Management Studio, unit testing utility)

suggestions:

“Expand/Collapse all” for avoiding clicks when you have lots of test procedures

Logical folders for grouping tests logically and not with the strict database schema names
If you think that those suggestions could help us, feel free to vote!
Stay Tuned!