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EPISODE · Feb 25, 2026 · 3 MIN

Testing is Becoming More Important

from Voice of the DBA · host Steve Jones

Many of us know that testing our code is important. The adoption of unit testing by many software application developers as a normal course of business has dramatically improved the quality of applications. Mobile software, especially, has benefited from the requirement for most software to include, and constantly run, a suite of unit tests. For database software, I find relatively few organizations formally test their database code. A few people have adopted tSQLt or the Microsoft Unit Testing Framework, but most don't bother. In fact, many queries that are embedded in application code, or built by ORMs, aren't tested beyond a developer looking at the results from their own (limited set of) test data. That often doesn't catch errors until someone in production runs their application against a larger set of data. Read the rest of Testing is Becoming More Important

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