So – my prediction wasn’t far off… About three weeks before the world cup started, I posted an observation that footballers know more about teamwork than IT guys. I predicted that the world cup final would be a match between Brazil and Argentina and I imagined what would happen if the Brazilian team acted like a traditional IT team, with…
Monthly Archives: July 2014
Slides: Building an automated database deployment pipeline
Last night I did something new – I was invited to talk at the PASS London SQL Server user group. I presented a talk about database continuous delivery. It was my first official speaker gig. A few people asked me to publish the slides so here they are: Building an automated database deployment pipeline from Red Gate Software For the…
Deploying Red Gate database packages with Octopus deploy
*** This post is now obsolete. You should read this post instead: https://workingwithdevs.com/tutorial-sql-release-octopus-deploy-databases/ *** Red Gate already offers a tool for managing your deployments. It’s called Deployment Manager. However, last week one of our account reps asked me to prepare a demo for a customer who had already spent a lot of time building a deployment process around a different release…