When creating automation scripts to discover, add, update or remove records from a remote SQL database, you need to make sure your script can successfully connect to the database.

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The unit testing framework should always be used to validate your scripts.

The (narrow but very important) problem: Test scripts used for version 1.0 of an application will probably break when applied to version 2.

Testers of Microsoft's SQL Azure service experienced a three-plus hour unplanned outage this week -- just a couple of weeks before Microsoft is set to remove the beta tag from its Azure cloud service.