Monthly Archives: August 2016

Is Rollback Feasible for Database Changes?

Posted on August 22, 2016 by way0utwest

One of the things I used to show people in SQL Compare was the ability to generate a quick rollback script by switching the source and target. We can generate a deployment script going from Dev to Production, switch the … Continue reading →

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PoSh Everywhere

Posted on August 20, 2016 by way0utwest

This week we had an announcement that PowerShell has been released as an open source project and is available on some Linux platforms as well as OSX. I was actually talking with someone else that had been informed prior to … Continue reading →

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PoSh on Ubuntu

Posted on August 19, 2016 by way0utwest

I heard about the PowerShell announcement recently where the platform is porting over to Linux and OSX. I think this is part of the SQL Server on Linux project, where I assume we’ll start to see the functionality that we … Continue reading →

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What’s Your Smoke Test?

Posted on August 19, 2016 by way0utwest

Many DBAs and operational staff regularly stress over software deployments to production systems. Even when the administrator has built and tested the deployment scripts, there is still a nagging fear that something will be missed, incurring downtime for systems. I … Continue reading →

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