Archive for the ‘database’ Category

Unit tests for MySQL scripts

Recently I had the opportunity to develop a unit testing framework for MySQL scripts in mostly-pure SQL. While I can’t share the code, I can certainly describe what we did, and why we did it. Hopefully it will be useful to you.

Two Conferences

Austin Hastings (that’s me) will be speaking at two conferences coming up in October. Both presentations will be focusing on LDM.
First, there’s the Telelogic User Group Conference 2008, in Austin, Texas. That’s obviously focused on Telelogic, and on CM Synergy and Telelogic Change, or whatever it’s called this week. Since I spent a fair amount [...]

Microsoft's take on database change management

As a sort of follow-on to my post on doing Database CM Three Ways, I give you this presentation from Microsoft field rep Jim Blizzard.
The presentation video goes over using the entire suite of Microsoft tools — go figure, right? But it is a good, solid introduction to what I call the “Computed List [...]