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Disabling Indices in a -bacpac file (Sql Server)

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We store most of our application’s data in an SQL server database. Sometimes, we need to transfer the data locally to debug defects related to production data. The database grows daily, and restoring the database locally takes more and more time. So we had the idea to disable indices because they are not needed for debugging locally, but restoring them takes quite a lot of time. We can’t disable indices before exporting the data to a bacpac file because it’s the productive...

Tests are Documentation, or are they?

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Yesterday evening, I gave a workshop titled “To test, or not to test” at the Software Crafters Zürich Meetup. In the workshop, we gathered reasons to write tests: being confident that the code works, being confident that regressions can be prevented, helping to drive the implementation, and having documentation of the system. Interestingly, when I prepared the workshop, I forgot about the documentation aspect of the tests. Here is why and why it matters.

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