Azure DevOps YAML Pipelines – Deploy to Azure SQL
In my previous blog post, we created an Azure DevOps YAML Pipeline to automate our Database Project Build process. In this blog post, we are going to create an Azure DevOps YAML Release Pipeline for Azure SQL. Quick Overview Prerequisites Step-by-step Example —Download Pipeline Artifact —Deploy Dacpac to Azure SQL —Adding the right trigger Considerations […]
Azure DevOps YAML Pipelines – Building Database Projects
In previous blog posts, I explained how to automate the Database Project Build & Deployment process using Azure DevOps (Release) Pipelines. These blog posts focused on setting up as easily as possible using the Classic Editor. In this blog post, I’m going through the steps of setting up a build pipeline using YAML. Quick Overview […]
Stop SSIS Package Execution
Problem Statement Today, I was working on a SSIS Package that executes a Python script for every day I want to retrieve the data. Since I was reloading data for a couple of months in my development environment, the process took quite some time. I developed my package in Visual Studio 2019 and deployed my […]
Automate your Database Deployments for SQL Server using Azure DevOps Releases
In my previous blog post, Automate your Database Deployments for Azure SQL using Azure DevOps Releases, I described how to automate your database deployments for Azure SQL. Now, in this blog post, we are going to take a look at how we can automate deployments for SQL Server. Since the setup is a bit different […]
Visual Studio Build in Azure DevOps Pipelines failing on latest Windows vmImage
Problem statement In the past couple of years, I have learned how to work with Azure DevOps Pipelines (Pipelines & Release Pipelines) using the Classic Editor. Last week, I started to play around with Azure DevOps YAML Pipelines. For some reason, I wasn’t able to build my Database Project using the latest vmImage for windows […]
Automate your Database Deployments for Azure SQL using Azure DevOps Releases
In my previous blog post, Automate your Database Builds – Using Azure DevOps Pipelines, we successfully automated our Build process. As a next step, we will be automating our deployment process to Azure SQL. In this blog post, we will go through the process step-by-step to set up our Release pipeline in Azure DevOps and […]
SQLBits 2023 – My experience
In the past, I have been hearing a lot of stories about SQLBits. And, this year, I finally was able to experience it myself. Thanks to my current employer, I was allowed to attend SQLBits. I attended 2 training days and 3 conference days, which basically is the full conference. I can tell, it is […]
Help – Which Attributes & Measures can I combine from my Tabular Data Model?
In this blog post, I will guide you through all the required steps to get a Data Model Relationship Matrix in Power BI. If you don’t know what I mean, I would like to have a straightforward overview where I can see which attribute groups and measure groups I can combine from my Tabular Model […]
Automate your Database Builds – Using Azure DevOps Pipelines
After we successfully introduced a database development strategy in my previous blog post series, Getting Started With Database Projects & Azure DevOps, we can look at how to introduce a database deployment automation strategy using Database Projects and Azure DevOps Pipelines. As a starter, we will first be implementing a build automation process and in […]
Database Projects & Azure DevOps – 5 Lessons Learned
Almost 5 years ago I made the switch from “traditional” database development using SQL Server Management Studio to a more flexible way of development by using Database Projects and Source Control. In the first few years, I worked with BitBucket as my code management system and for 2 years I’m using Azure DevOps. In my […]