I'm part of a team at Red Gate that has worked in collaboration with the open source [tSQLt][1] unit testing framework developers to release a preview build of what we're calling [SQL Test][2], a SQL Server test runner tool integrated into SSMS.
One idea that was banded about was to distribute SQL Test with a small selection of database checks that would be valuable to database developers who are trying to adhere to best practices. I'm thinking of maybe a script to identify objects that haven't got the MS_Description extended property defined, or a check that CLR isn't enabled on the server. As I'm not a SQL Server developer or a DBA by trade, I'm stuggling to determine which checks are most useful to the SQL community, and whether these checks can be easily expressed in SQL and therefore are candidates for me to ship them as pre-defined tests in SQL Test.
I'd really appreciate any help from the community to suggest as answers to this question what you believe these checks should be, and if possible, supply me with a SQL fragment that you're happy to be made available out of the box with SQL Test. Please vote the checks that you like up so we get an idea of what's more popular.
Many thanks for your help!
[1]: http://tsqlt.org/
[2]: http://www.red-gate.com/products/sql-development/sql-test/
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