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About erictummers

Working in a DevOps team is the best thing that happened to me. I like challenges and sharing the solutions with others. On my blog I’ll mostly post about my work, but expect an occasional home project, productivity tip and tooling review.

Red-gate SQL Test

Writing unittests for sql objects was one of my blind spots. Red-gate has a tool called SQL Test that should fill in the gap. I have given it a try. SQL Test is a graphical user interface for tSQLt, a … Continue reading

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Week roundup

Last week recap an links: Good overview of bootstrap on getbootstrap.com. What is bootstrap? It makes websites look good on all devices. The best free .NET decompilers – the .NET Reflector alternatives gives some alternatives to Reflector. I’ve downloaded JustDecomple … Continue reading

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Integration Test with Entity Framework Codefirst

Our database is developed using Entity Framework Codefirst. Everything in code. Enabled migrations to update existing environments as we roll out. The code passed all the unittests, but it didn’t feel right. Time for an integration test. This brought me … Continue reading

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Week roundup

Last week recap an links: Definitive steps to configure MSDTC on Azure virtual machines – without need of domain controller Not much blogging for me this week. I’m training for a Half Marathon and joined Around the world running. This … Continue reading

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Week roundup

Here are the best articles I’ve read/seen last week: Installation of nServiceBus infrastructure items with Powershell commandlets and the uninstall options for MSDTC, MSMQ and RavenDb. Nice youtube video about the concept “Architecture“ A successfull Git branching model. We use … Continue reading

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