Chocolatey is a package manager that helps you install, upgrade, and uninstall packages (applications) on Windows quickly and easily from the command line.
Spoilers:
choco install sqltoolbeltchoco upgrade sqltoolbeltchoco uninstall sqltoolbelt
I created a cheat sheet for the Git Command Line Interface to go along with my Git tutorial for SQL Change Automation video.
I find the Git CLI to be very friendly and easier to learn than a GUI interface.
Steve Jones and I had a great time today talking about source control for databases and release patterns for performance and availability in Seattle. We had a group of folks who asked terrific questions, made thoughtful comments, and interacted throughout the day.
In this video, Freyja the puppy and I talk about a recent workshop which I facilitated at the IDC DevOps conference in London.
Recently, I was doing a bit of work in Azure DevOps Services, preparing a demo for an upcoming webinar. I ran into a simple but frustrating problem.
I’m excited for Redgate’s new SQL Change Automation plugin for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).
SQL Change Automation lets DBAs and developers use a migrations-first approach to create precise scripts to apply changes to your database. If you’re curious about what I mean by “migrations-first”, read more about this approach, and how it compares to a state-first approach here.
The Accelerate: State of DevOps Report 2019 has just been published. This report is the latest in six years of research. With more than 31,000 survey responses, Accelerate is the longest running study of DevOps in academia or industry.
In the 2019 edition, research continues to show that DevOps drives business value: high performers at DevOps are “twice as likely to meet or exceed their organizational goals.” While this isn’t a new finding, it’s very important that this continues to be true: why invest in improving at DevOps if it doesn’t drive business value?
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