Posts tagged with: testing

Trying to Resolve “Failed to deploy database project:..” when running Database Tests

On certain occasions when you try to run the database tests you will receive the dreaded “Failed to deploy database project:” message and then many of your tests will fail. We speculated that this was primarily due to the test...
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Knightmare – Where were the testing and development practices?

The Dark Knight showed us what a psychopath could do with  gasoline, a match, and large piles of other people’s money. It seems insane to most people to burn Certificates of Performance (money) in this way. “This is the story...
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More SQL Learning – Performance, Tuning, and Troubleshooting

I recently came across a new blog by Ramesh Meyyappan on “Seek or Scan – Cost Based Optimizer in SQL Server“.  In the youtube video (17 minutes) he covers the topic with some good examples and explanations, assuming you have...
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Improving Project Success

There was a timely editorial posted this morning on SQL Server Central by Steve Jones concerning Successful Projects. In his post he references Kevin Whitson’s The Kevin Test for Successful Projects, which was inspired by The Rands Test   and Joel...
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Equivalence Partitioning and Other Testing Methodologies

I was recently sent an article on different testing methodologies. Thanks Danny. The article covered a topic that I think many people may forget about when thinking of how to write tests. That topic is Equivalence Partitioning. Equivalence Partitioning is used to...
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