DevOps for Databases

About this course

This course is part of the Microsoft Professional Program in DevOps.

This course examines the challenges and solutions of incorporating your database into a DevOps software development process. This course will help you understand the challenges of working with various data stores while developing and changing your software at a rapid pace.

You will learn where and how databases can fit into DevOps processes.

The course will cover:

Committing database code to a version control system (VCS), Continuous Integration and unit testing database code.

Release management for databases, in areas such as release gates, deploying releases to multiple environments, validating deployments with smoke tests and rolling back deployments.

Monitoring database code, branching and merging database code, cross databases dependencies, upgrading multiple databases, federated databases, dark launching, error handling and cleaning up technical debt with databases.

Finally, while the course will primarily use Microsoft SQL Server (and tailor our examples for it), other relational or non-relational database platforms have similar concepts that can be applied.

What you'll learn

Define DevOps and understand DevOps in relation to Databases

Identify the challenges of using databases that are separate from other software languages and platforms

Include your database code alongside other application code in a version control system (VCS)

Set up a Continuous Integration (CI) platform for your database code

Write and include automated unit tests for your database code

Develop an automated release process that deploys database changes to both on premise and cloud databases

Implement branching and merging for your database code

Instrument and monitor the database after deployment

Course Syllabus

Module 0 | Welcome to DevOps for Databases

Course Overview
Microsoft Learning
Pre-Course Survey

Module 1 | Overview of DevOps

Module 1 Overview
Overview of DevOps
Database Development Issues in a DevOps Process
Database Development Paradigms
Collaboration
Module 1 Labs
Module 1 Review Questions
Database Development

Module 2 | Overview

Overview of DevOps for Databases
Committing Database Code to a VCS
Continuous Integration for Databases
Unit Testing Database Code
Module 2 Labs
Module 2 Review Questions

Module 3 | Releasing Database Changes

Module 3 Overview
Overview of Release Management
Deploying Releases
Release Gates
Release Details
Rollbacks
Module 3 Labs
Module 3 Review Questions

Module 4 | Advanced Topics

Module 4 Overview
Monitoring Your Systems
Branching and Merging Database Code
Provisioning
Best Practices
Advanced Customer Scenarios current Section
Module 4 Labs
Module 4 Review Questions

Final Exam

Final Exam(Graded)
Post-Course Survey

Meet the instructors

Steve Jones

Developer, DBA and Manager
Redgate Software

Steve Jones has 25 years of SQL Server experience as a developer, DBA, and manager. He is the founder and editor of SQLServerCentral and an evangelist for Redgate Software. He has been a Data Platform MVP for 10 years.

Greg Low

MVP, a Microsoft Regional Director, and the Principal Mentor
SQL Down Under