Cherry-Pick Is Cross-Database INSERT…SELECT
Sometimes you don’t want to merge an entire branch. You want one specific commit from another branch — one fix, one change, one feature — without bringing everything else along for the ride. DBAs do…
Git for SSDT Projects: Where It All Comes Together
This is the post where everything clicks. Over the last eight posts, we’ve mapped git concepts to database analogies: repositories as databases, branches as database copies, merging as synchronization, tags as snapshots. You’ve got the…
Database Seeding: When to Hit the Table vs. When to Hit the API
You’ve got a new environment to stand up. Maybe it’s a fresh QA instance, maybe it’s a training environment someone just spun up, or maybe production got rebuilt after a disaster recovery test. Either way,…