SQLBits 2014

The secret to pain-free database deployments? Automation

Starting at version control, we’ll look at typical patterns and practices, how to tackle known challenges, and the safety checkpoints you should plan for as you work towards continuous delivery for databases, and painless deployments.
Grant Fritchey and David Atkinson, Red GateDatabase deployment has evolved. Teams are now using automation and tooling to remove the pain from critical stages in their deployment process, and help keep their systems more robust. In this session, David Atkinson goes on a step-by-step journey to introduce automation to different points in the database release pipeline, keeping a close eye on stability and reliability along the way. Starting at version control, we’ll look at typical patterns and practices, how to tackle known challenges, and the safety checkpoints you should plan for as you work towards continuous delivery for databases, and painless deployments.