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In today's fast-paced software development landscape, having a reliable and efficient local development setup is crucial. Dev Containers provide developers with a seamless way to build and test applications locally before deploying them to the cloud. We are announcing the Public Preview of Dev Container templates for Azure SQL Database. This rel...

Creating a Kubernetes Application for Azure SQL Database Buck Woody, Principal Applied Data Scientist, Microsoft Modern application development has several challenges. From selecting a "stack" of front-end through data storage and processing from several competing standards, through ensuring the highest levels of security and performance, dev...

I was fortunate enough to be able to present Data API builder the week of March 20th at VS Live in Las Vegas and what an incredible group of attendees at that conference. During my session, I stepped through a live demo of Data API builder showing off REST and GraphQL endpoints on various database objects. This blog post contains the steps I perfor...

There are a bunch of tools available for developing with SQL on macOS, including the mssql extension for VS Code and the standalone yet-comfortably-familiar Azure Data Studio. As a developer, you might have heard about the Azure SQL Database emulator and you've most certainly heard about deploying SQL in containers. Most recently, a new option for ...

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...

Importing a SQL Server backup into an Azure SQL Database is not a trivial task. Here's how to automate the process of converting a .bak to .bacpac file using Docker Containers, Powershell and some automation.