All test case names must start with 'test' and follow SQL Server stored procedure naming conventions. This example creates a test table, inserts values, and calls the function GetStatusMessage.

The SQL Server team is unleashing the first widespread test builds of the next version of Microsoft's database, a k a SQL Server 2008 R2 (codenamed "Kilimanjaro").

SQL Test provides a graphical front-end for tSQLt. The SQL Test window allows users to more easily create test classes, view existing unit tests, execute them, and view the results with in a ...

Users need to have a SQL Azure account to test it, but Microsoft offers a no-cost trial of Windows Azure (including SQL Azure) for 90 days. It's not clear when the service became available publicly.

The test build that will be made available is designated CTP 2 and will be made available to a "limited" number of testers, according to company officials. A first CTP of SQL Azure Reporting ...

SQL Server on Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines (VM) had up to 86.8% better price-performance when comparing Azure Hybrid Benefit to AWS License Mobility for three-year compute commitment, and up ...

Test-Drive SQL Server Data Services Microsoft readies its new "cloud database" by hosting beta versions of REST and SOAP protocols for performing CRUD operations on clustered, customized SQL Server ...

The tool used to be called SQLIOStress and has been upgraded to more accurately reflect I/O patterns of SQL Server 2005. The tests that are run by the tool simulate read, write, checkpoint, backup ...

Brian Egler MCSE/MCT is a Microsoft SQL Server Course Director for Global Knowledge. He has more than 15 years' experience with SQL Server. Every year he runs the Boston Marathon for cancer research.