Expanding on the excellent post by Drew Skwiers-Koballa; Developing with Azure SQL bindings and Azure SQL trigger for Azure Functions, I'd like to take a chance to walk you through creating your first SQL Binding using a completely local development environment. Part 1 will cover creating a SQL Binding to get data from an Azure SQL Database. Parts ...

In part 3 of our Azure SQL database change management (CICD) series we cover testing your code using tSQLt and GitHub Actions. Prerequisites Check Refer to part 1 and part 2 for the prerequisites. Fork the GitHub Project We will be using tSQLt in this post, so I have created a GitHub project made up of several SQL Da...

Join us for part two of our Azure SQL database change management (CICD) series. This post covers local development environments with Visual Studio Code. Prerequisites Check For Database Projects to deploy correctly, we need to have the .NET Core SDK installed. You can get it here with a direct link for windows x64 here. You can also check i...

Azure SQL CICD Part 1: Getting Started Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery/Deployment (CD) are a set of principles or methodologies that empower development teams to deliver code faster, more reliably, and with fewer bugs compared to traditional software development such as the waterfall model. Teams that use CI/C...