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Build Server Setup

Dr John Tunnicliffe edited this page May 11, 2019 · 2 revisions

Azure Pipelines provides access to a range of Microsoft-hosted agents. These can be used to build your SQL Server projects, which gives you some faith in the quality of your software. However, these hosted agents can only deploy to Azure-hosted services such as Azure SQL Database and Azure Analysis Services. SSIS and SSRS projects are left out in the cold.

To effectively work with on-premise SQL Server instances, you need an in-house build server with the Azure Pipelines self-hosted agent installed.

How to install the agent is well documented by Microsoft, so will not be repeated here. However, we recommend the following:

Create a Virtual Machine Install Visual Studio 2017

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