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 ...

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 ...

Many developers are tasked with writing unit tests as test-first design and development becomes commonplace, even on teams that aren't strictly practicing Agile methodologies. Test-driven development ...

Artificial intelligence is rapidly entering nearly every stage of the software development lifecycle. From code generation to ...

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 ...

How to use the InMemory provider in Entity Framework Core to test your methods without hitting the database or using fakes and mocks The InMemory database provider is an exciting feature in newer ...