ALM / DevOps

TH11 Bringing DevOps to the Database

10/06/2016

11:00am - 12:15pm

Level: Intermediate

Steve Jones

Data Platform MVP, MCSE, BA

Editor

SQLServerCentral

DevOps is a hot topic in today's software development world. However most of the knowledge and experience with DevOps is based around application software and ignores the database. This session will examine how you can apply the concepts and principles of DevOps to database development by looking at both automated comparison analysis, as well as migration script management. You'll learn about automated building, testing, and deploying database changes.

You will learn:

  • How to easily apply DevOps principles to the database in either state based or migrations based changes
  • How to automatically build and test databases in a CI/CD environment
  • How to automate database releases, but are differently than those deployment/releases made for other software