A Fine Slice Of SQL Server
In this video, I show you how you can prevent people from checking directly into a specific branch, as well as explaining why you might want to enable this feature and how it looks for administrators.
Admittedly, this video would work a bit better with multiple user accounts, but I think I got the general point across.
Comments closedIn this video, I explain what continuous integration (CI) is, disambiguate continuous delivery from continuous deployment (CD), and see how you can perform CI/CD operations using GitHub Actions.
Read on to see what these terms mean and an example of how it all works with .NET projects.
Comments closedIn this video, we look at how to perform Infrastructure as Code in GitHub. We take a Bicep script and generate new Azure resources using it and GitHub Actions.
The video includes a very brief primer on Azure Resource Manager (ARM) and Bicep, and then gets into how you can use GitHub Actions to keep your Azure resources configured the way you expect.
Comments closedOlivier Van Steenlandt fixes an oopsie-doodle:
In the past couple of months, I’ve been doing a lot of different things at the same time. Because of that, it is no exception that I have quite some branches for my Database Projects that I’m working on simultaneously.
Because of this, another issue arises as well, it happens now and then that I’m committing my changes to the wrong branch. Luckily for me, I’m making this mistake by committing directly to my development branch, where the change needs to be done in the end anyway.
Nevertheless, I need to get my change into my feature branch as well. In this data recipe, I will be guiding you through the process.
Click through to see how. If you’re using a GUI like GitHub Desktop or Sourcetree, there are also ways of doing this within the UI.
Comments closedIn this video, cover the GitHub flow. We talk a bit about branching strategies and how GitHub development ought to look in a multi-developer situation.
The GitHub flow is a minor variant from the classical Git flow, but one that works well with the ethos of development specifically in GitHub. It’s often overkill for a single-developer repo, but once you have a team working on a problem, this is a much more efficient approach.
Comments closedIn this video, we dig into GitHub’s process for executing code: GitHub Actions workflows. We’ll learn what Actions and workflows are, how we can create them from scratch, and how to incorporate Actions from the GitHub Marketplace into our own workflows.
Along the way, I describe what GitHub Actions workflows are and we build a simple one. I’ll have more videos coming up that expand on GitHub Actions and show you more of what you can do with them.
Comments closedIn this video, we take a look at what GitHub has for project management, reviewing GitHub Projects and Issues.
The upshot is that GitHub has a fair amount of capability for project management. Its notion of Issues definitely feels fairly well fleshed out, which makes sense considering GitHub’s original purpose as a storehouse for open-source code repositories. By contrast, Projects are a relatively new feature and there’s still some room to grow there, especially if you’re used to project management tools like Jira or Trello.
Comments closedI have started a new video series:
In this video, we take a look at GitHub, centering it in the broader Git community and taking a look at what it takes to fork and clone a GitHub repository.
It’s an intro video, though I think even normal but casual GitHub users will learn a few things along the way.
Comments closedSteve Jones explains that Git isn’t just for developers:
Git has become a fantastic tool for me, and many other technologists, over the last ten years. It’s almost ubiquitous in most of my clients, and so many people are comfortable with it. Many others aren’t, which is why I started a Git series for DBAs (and other Ops people) on my blog.
Quite a few people asked me why I recommend git over a file share for storing code that a team of Ops people or DBAs might use. Why isn’t a global file share a better choice in an organization? I think I have a few good reasons, but if you disagree, let me know in the discussion for this piece.
There are some annoyances around Git but good UI tools minimize a fair amount of the pain and the benefits are huge.
Comments closedPaul Turley violates Betteridge’s Law of Headlines:
The answer – finally – is a resounding YES! It has been a long road and the path to implementing Continuous Integration & Delivery (CI/CD) in all of its forms for Power BI is still a journey, but the capabilities are now a reality. This broad category includes a range of features and capabilities related to managing project files with version control and the ability to share and collaborate with other development team members. Additionally, we also have the ability to assign individual components of a solution to different team members who then check-out files and develop features, check them back in and merge changes into a feature branch. In enterprise-class projects, having these capabilities enables true Development Operations or DevOps: a process for managing iterative development, testing and deployment with automated builds, using a central process management tool. Implementing full-fledged DevOps is a big lift for most Business Intelligence professionals but the core concept of code version control is essential for any durable project.
Read on for Paul’s thoughts on the importance of source control and how you can pull this off.
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