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For mobile healthcare applications with many connected devices, complex database migration projects, and huge enterprise-level desktop multiplatform products, a solid DevOps environment is critical. In this blog, we’ll show how we used the TestNG and Appium frameworks for mobile app test automation using a CI/CD pipeline. We’ll also look at how we used AWS CloudFormation and PowerShell to deploy the test environment as well. The result was a 3.6 times reduction in testing person-hours and a reduction of the full-regression test cycle time by 25%.

This case study features our experience of measuring data science algorithms to optimize the ETL processing for data cleansing.

In this blog, our Chief Technology Storyteller Bill Ramos shows how to use the array sub-expression operator and “splatting” with hash tables to build the parameters needed for the Invoke-Sqlcmd cmdlet.

DB Best released a new version of Migration Platform, our ultimate product for automating database migrations. In this release we added new features to the Test Organizer module, a unique and unrivaled feature of the DB Best Migration Platform. We also made several improvements of the user interface. Read this blog post to learn more about these new application features.

The DB Best team designed and delivered a fully automated process driven by Jenkins. This process allows for a seamless deployment of data-driven applications after migrating them from on-premises Oracle database to the AWS cloud. Read the blog post to discover how we exceeded the customer’s expectations with our perfect delivery.

The DB Best Oracle Forms and Reports Converter automates the conversion of your forms to a modern Web 2.0 architecture. Our converter processes the source XML files to JavaScript files and SQL code fragments. In this blog post, we will show our best practices for incorporating our Oracle Forms and Reports Converter into a Continous Integration (CI) / Continous Deployment (CD) DevOps process to shorten developer lead time and reduce change failure rates.

We continue our blog post series covering key Database Compare Suite (DBCS) features. In our previous posts, we talked about comparing data and discovering data differences by leveraging the user interface of Database Compare Suite. The command-line interface of our product provides users with all the features of the main application. In this blog post we will talk about using Database Compare Suite for data management tasks in the CLI mode. Why use Database Compare Suite in the CLI mode? This […]

In this blog post, we’ll cover the highlights of how we implemented DevOps technologies and managed to achieve zero downtime for the application deployments, eliminate a huge number of bugs by creating limitless development environments, shorten a full regression test cycle by a factor of 4, and enable a 15-minute infrastructure set up to replace their previous 4-hour set up!

Managers for a well-known accounting and tax-preparation company contacted DB Best looking for an alternative solution to a big problem. They were long term customers of SAS but were now facing two key challenges: high SAS license costs and the fact that SAS developers could not keep up with business demands and provide for effective support. The DB Best team analyzed our customers’ initial SAS solution and determined that the best possible option was to migrate their workloads to Microsoft […]

In this second blog post for my series, Power BI for the SQL Server DBA, I’m going to show how you can take Windows Perfmon (Performance Monitor) data for SQL Server and analyze it with Power BI.
I’m going to assume that as an SQL Server DBA, you probably have not used Power BI yet. If you have some familiarity with Power BI, I hope there are still gems you can pull out of this blog post.