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Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook

By : Tarun Arora
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Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook

By: Tarun Arora

Overview of this book

Team Foundation Server (TFS) allows you to manage code repositories, build processes, test infrastructure, and deploy labs. TFS supports your team, enabling you to connect, collaborate, and deliver on time. Microsoft's approach to Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) provides a flexible and agile environment that adapts to the needs of your team, removes barriers between roles, and streamlines processes. The book introduces you to creating and setting up team projects for scrum teams. You'll explore various source control repositories, branching, and merging activities, along with a demonstration of how to embed quality into every code check-in. Then, you'll discover agile project planning and management tools. Later, emphasis is given to the testing and release management features of TFS which facilitate the automation of the release pipeline in order to create potentially shippable increments. By the end of the book, you'll have learned to extend and customize TFS plugins to incorporate them into other platforms and enable teams to manage the software lifecycle effectively.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Changing update frequency and forcing a rebuild of TFS Warehouse


The reporting warehouse in TFS is a traditional data warehouse that consists of a relational database and an analysis services database. The data warehouse aggregates all the operational data, such as version control, Work Item tracking, build, and test. The warehouse corresponds to the Tfs_Warehouse relational database. The cube corresponds to the SQL Server Analysis Services database Tfs_Analysis. The default rebuild frequency for the TFS Warehouse is 2 hours. In this recipe, you'll learn how to manually change the TFS Warehouse refresh frequency from 2 hours to 1 hour. You'll also learn how to force a rebuild of the TFS Warehouse cube.

Note

TFS Warehouse refresh is default to 2 hours; if you reduce the interval to less than the default of 2 hours, processing of the data warehouse will consume server resources frequently. If your TFS Server has large volumes of data, reducing the refresh frequency may adversely affect the performance...