Sachin Rekhi's Ramblings
On Mastering DB Development with Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals
Article: Developer.com - Test Driven Development
Developer.com has a great article on Test Driven Development. This methodology is gaining momentum...
Author: SachinRe Date: 07/26/2006
Trying out Team System
As you know, Team Edition for Database Professionals is part of the larger Visual Studio Team...
Author: SachinRe Date: 07/26/2006
Checkin Policy for Database Unit Testing
Team Edition for Database Professionals, combined with Team Test and Team Foundation Server,...
Author: SachinRe Date: 07/25/2006
Best Practice: Deploying Database Rename Refactorings
Team Edition for Database Professionals is targeted primarily at managing iterative changes for...
Author: SachinRe Date: 07/25/2006
Link: Beck Testing Framework
For many database professionals, unit testing is a foreign concept. Many of you may have never heard...
Author: SachinRe Date: 07/22/2006
Database Unit Testing: Managing Database State
One important consideration in database unit testing is managing the database state. This aspect of...
Author: SachinRe Date: 07/22/2006
Who is the database professional?
Another great question J There are several ways to answer that. In the broadest sense, the database...
Author: SachinRe Date: 07/20/2006
Database Unit Test Verification
One of the most important aspects of database unit testing is verification. The application unit...
Author: SachinRe Date: 07/15/2006
Types of database unit tests
Since database unit testing is a fairly new concept, I thought I’d give you a sense for some types...
Author: SachinRe Date: 07/15/2006
Creating your first database unit test
I wanted to show you how easy it is to create your first database unit test using Visual Studio Team...
Author: SachinRe Date: 07/14/2006
Team Data CTP4 Now Available!
The latest Community Technology Preview (CTP4) of Team Edition for Database Professionals is now...
Author: SachinRe Date: 07/07/2006
A look back to an early article on Evolutionary Database Design
I wanted to take a moment to point people back to an early article that Martin Fowler & Pramod...
Author: SachinRe Date: 07/07/2006
Link: Walkthrough of test data generation
Cameron Skinner, Product Unit Manager (the guy who runs the product group), has a great post with a...
Author: SachinRe Date: 07/06/2006
A better approach to test data generation
Anytime you are doing any sort of serious database development, you’ll need realistic test data to...
Author: SachinRe Date: 07/06/2006
What's all the excitement about?
In case you have been living in your own little bubble and missed all the excitement around the new...
Author: SachinRe Date: 07/01/2006
Book Recommendation: Refactoring Databases
I wanted to send kudos over to Scott W. Ambler and Pramodkumar J. Sadalage for recently publishing a...
Author: SachinRe Date: 07/01/2006
What is database refactoring?
Well, I’m glad you asked :) The best way to explain database refactoring is to offer two different...
Author: SachinRe Date: 07/01/2006
What is database unit testing?
Unit Testing, while a well understood technique in the application development world, is not nearly...
Author: SachinRe Date: 07/01/2006
Team Data Forums
A great way to learn more about the product, hear what other users have to say about it, and get...
Author: SachinRe Date: 07/01/2006
Meet the Team Data Bloggers
Beyond myself, there are quite a few other bloggers from the product team. I thought I would take...
Author: SachinRe Date: 07/01/2006
Welcome
I wanted to take a moment to introduce myself and tell you a little bit about what I hope to make of...
Author: SachinRe Date: 07/01/2006