Managing and Deploying SQL Database Code

SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) Does database comparisons, deployments, automation In Visual Studio SQL Server Project Being in Visual Studio � can do smart refactoring. It propagates all the changes (like a rename) to all associated files. Schema Compare and Updates Changes made on the SQL server can be brought back into Visual Studio through […]

ASP.NET MVC, WEBAPI, SQL, Unit Test and EF on Azure

This is a sample project that contains the following: ASP.NET MVC (4.6) ASP.NET WEBAPI SQL (SQL SERVER 2014) ENTITY FRAMEWORK (5) UNIT TESTS All is deployed on Azure here: http://samplewidgets.azurewebsites.net/ This is a project I use as kind of a template for other projects that use similar technologies and frameworks. I’ve also used it to […]

SQL Server Account Types and Security

A quick reference to SQL Server Account Types and System Security   Ports Clients connect to SQL Server through UDP 1434 SQL server responds with a TCP Port number to continue their connection Default TCP port is 1433     Server and System Security SQL Service runs under a service account, can be: Windows account […]

Relational vs Non-Relational Databases

Other notes here regarding types of databases and cloud providers for these types of databases. http://solidfish.com/types-of-databases/   History Relational theory Tuples = unordered set of attribute values (row and attribute of column in a table) Relation = collection of tuples and corresponding relations Constraints = enforce consistency; used to identify tuples and relationships between them […]

Types of Databases

These are some notes on different types of databases used in the current industry. Refer to my other post on Relational vs Non-Relational Database for more information specific to NoSQL Document Databases. http://solidfish.com/relational-vs-non-relational-databases/ Below is a list of some different types of databases as well as some platforms/tools for these database types.   Document Databases […]