Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a software development practise that has been around for a few years. Wikipedia describes it as: Test-driven development (TDD) is a software development process that relies on the repetition of a very short development cycle: first the developer writes a failing automated test case that defines a desired ...

My naming convention obsession Anyone that has ever worked with me will tell you that I am a stickler for naming conventions. I have a somewhat obsessive reputation for it; I can’t help it – I seem to have a deep seated uncontrollable desire to ensure that every object in my database(s) is/are named consistently (is there anyone else out there ...

Its now been a month since I introduced sp_CascadingDataViewer and I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about a couple of my experiences while writing it.   SQL Server needs packages Version 1 of sp_CascadingDataViewer is an 899 line stored procedure (view the code at changeset 58999), that’s a lot of code and much of it is repeated. I ...

Three days ago I wrote a blog post entitled Setting up database unit testing as part of a Continuous Integration build process [VS2010 DB Tools - Datadude] which goes through some of the intracasies of using Visual Studio 2010 Database projects (aka datadude projects) and database unit testing as part of a continuous integration build. ...

[This blog post assumes a familiarity with the terms Continuous Integration (CI), MSBuild & MSTest. If you don’t have a good appreciation of those terms then this blog post probably isn’t for you anyway so don’t worry about it!] Over the past few days I have been working to get database unit tests executing as part of our Continuous ...