Your pipeline has tests. Not as many as you’d like. But they exist, they run in CI, and they pass. Last Thursday the pipeline execution instance reported green at 3:00 AM and red by 9:00 AM. Nobody had touched the code. I can hear some of you thinking, “If the output changed, Andy, then something …
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Testing New SSIS Extensions – Some Basics
Featured image test tube drawing attribution: Test Vectors by Vecteezy. How do I test new SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) extensions and updates to Visual Studio? I have a collection of virtual servers that run locally on my laptop. SSIS extensions for Visual Studio 2019 and Visual Studio 2022 are now separate downloads (see the …
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How I Build an SSIS Test Virtual Machine
I use VirtualBox for my hypervisor engine. I started using it years ago when it was the first free hypervisor I found that supported 64-bit guests. In this post I share some thoughts about testing SSIS using a test virtual machine (VM). There are other awesome hypervisor platforms out there. In setting up a virtual …
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