Testing and tuning SQL is an often-overlooked aspect of incorporating the database into your DevOps pipeline. It is important to be able to analyze and optimize SQL performance within your application ...

Unfortunately, not every SQL database is always available when we expect it to be. When you're creating automation scripts to discover, add, update or remove records from a remote SQL database, you ...

There’s a very handy new tool from Microsoft called the Database Experimentation Assistant (DEA). The DEA makes it very easy to conduct A/B testing for SQL Server upgrades, providing quantitative ...

Sometimes it takes a bit more time to get something right — especially when it’s technically challenging. That’s why Amiato, a Palo Alto, California-based startup, labeled itself as one of the “off ...

Most enterprise applications rely on the database as the persistence mechanism. Integration tests for these applications require data in the database to run correctly. For integration tests to be ...

If I have an application that uses a database as its data store (and ultimate source of truth) that brings some obvious issues when developing tests: In the applications, objects should ONLY be ...

The devices underpinning today's communications networks grow increasingly powerful, in their speed, throughput, features and supported services. That's great for users – but it presents a significant ...

Data work in 2026 asks for more than chart building. Professionals are expected to clean data, query databases, explain ...

My five-point test requires a new release to bring at least five significant improvements to my environment, or it’s not worth upgrading. Each improvement has to change my life in a significant way, ...