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Access Denied –How To Prevent a Failure Mid-Deploy

Hello! As part of any decent path-to-live, it is obviously crucial to deploy to other environments. This is crucial because not only do we need to test the changes being made, but just as importantly that the deployment will succeed. An ideally these environments should match as closely to production as possible. The less difference there is between production and all environments up to production, the greater the chances a deployment will succeed. Sounds simple, and perhaps even trivial, but if there is one thing that always, and I mean always catches deployments out, it’s permissions. Chances are production permissions

SQL Agent depLoyment Tasks Out Now!

Hello! In my time since leaving university, I’ve worked across the spectrum, from tester to DBA, it has always been abundantly clear that SQL Agent Jobs are one of those things that are really difficult to get into source control and deploy. Sure, you can script them out, but that doesn’t really factor in changes. And in many places, the phrase “whatever is in prod” has often been the answer to the question “what are the SQL Agent Jobs supposed to look like?” And frequently, relying on msdb being backed up as been the backup process for SQL Agent Jobs.