Steve Jones - Continuous Integration with Local Agents and Azure DevOps

Social chat begins at 6pm.

Presentation Summary:
One of the fundamental tools for modern DevOps software development is continuous Integration (CI). This process provides an automated independent validation and verification of your code, with quick feedback for developers that are under pressure to write higher quality software at a rapid pace. This session examines how Azure DevOps or TFS can be used to manage this process and run a database CI process inside of your data center, on your own instances.

We will explain CI and Azure DevOps as an orchestrator and see a live DevOps flow of the process running on local instances, but controlled from the cloud. Learn how this can start improving your database development teamwork immediately.

Speaker Bio:
Steve Jones (he/him) has been working with databases and computers for over two decades. He has worked with SQL Server since 1991, from v4.2 through SQL Server 2016. He has been a DBA, developer, and manager in a variety of large and small companies across multiple industries. In 2001 Steve founded SQLServerCentral with two partners and has been publishing technical articles and facilitating discussions among SQL Server professionals ever since. He currently is the full time editor of SQLServerCentral, as well as an Advocate for Redgate Software. Steve is a 13 year Microsoft Data Platform MVP and lives on a horse ranch in Colorado.