Tag: SQLServer

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! 🙂

PASS SQL Saturday Parma Agenda now available!

PASS SQL Saturday Parma agenda is now available!

This is the timetable:
From        To
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10:00       11:00
11:15       12:15
12:30       13:30
13:30       14:30
14:30       15:30
15:45       16:45
16:45       17:00
17:00       18:00
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We will have three tracks:
  • BI, for Business Intelligence, BigData, xVelocity, etc.
  • DEV, for developers 
  • OPS, for operations and administration
Checkout the agenda here and organize your Saturday with the schedule builder!
 
Stay Tuned! 🙂
 
 
 
 

LepideAuditor for SQL Server review

Every day a DBA (or a developer), has to reply to questions like “who changed that table?” or “who tried to login on our production database?”. These answers are not so simple to find out, actually. LepideAuditor for SQL Server is a tool that can helps us to audit operations on a SQL Server instance and to monitor both the server and the database level.

Continue reading “LepideAuditor for SQL Server review” →

SQL Server latest Cumulative Updates (July 2014)

Directly from the Microsoft Release Service blog, here is the list of latest updates for SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2 and 2012 SP1/SP2:

SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2

Cumulative Update #13 for SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2 (8 July 2014 – end of mainstream support for 2008 and 2008 R2)

SQL Server 2012 SP1

Cumulative Update #11 for SQL Server 2012 SP1

SQL Server 2012 SP2

Cumulative Update #1 for SQL Server 2012 SP2

 

Additionally, here is the SQL Server 2012 with SP2 Slipstream ISO image fix.

 

Stay Tuned! 🙂

SQL Server with Red-gate SQL Source Control – Working folder management with TFS

I’ve already spoken about source controlling database using Visual Studio Online and Red-Gate SQL Source Control in this post. The described kind of approach brings a drawback, due to the nature of the plugin and VSO APIs: High latency when getting and syncing local database and workspaces.

Due to this problem, I’ve changed my settings when linking my databases, switching them from “Team Foundation Server (TFS)” to “Working folder“, as in the following picture:

Continue reading “SQL Server with Red-gate SQL Source Control – Working folder management with TFS” →

Create C# enum template with SSMS Boost

I’ve spoken about SSMS Boost in this post and now I’m going to apply one of its feature in order to improve the productivity of my team. Speaking about the database side, a table that contains static data can be used as a foreign key referenced table. In my experience those kind of tables are often mapped to enums in our application layer. Creating that enum can be a tedious operation and sometimes it can be very uncomfortable. With SSMS Boost we can enhance our development experience. Continue reading “Create C# enum template with SSMS Boost” →