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title: "[How Do I:] Run Unit Tests against a Deployed Database? | Microsoft Docs"
author: pjhacker
description: "If your ASP.NET application is configured to deploy a database along with the Web site, how can you verify that a valid database instance has been deployed?..."
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[How Do I:] Run Unit Tests against a Deployed Database?
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by [Paul Hacker](https://github.com/pjhacker)

If your ASP.NET application is configured to deploy a database along with the Web site, how can you verify that a valid database instance has been deployed? In this video we learn how to run unit tests against the deployed database, asserting the existence of a value that is known to be consistent across database instances.

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