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Redgate invites senior data professionals to discuss the benefits of Compliant Database DevOps at SQL in the City Summits this October

More and more we’re hearing that senior data professionals are facing the challenge of how to balance the need to deliver software faster and cheaper, with the requirement to protect and preserve business-critical data. At Redgate we want to support organizations on their journey to full database DevOps and, given the current concerns... Read more

The conflict between data protection and DevOps

Data breaches are the new normal – according to the Identity Theft Resource Center there were nearly 1,600 of them in 2017 in the US alone, exposing 179 million records. Demonstrating the scale of the issue on the other side of the Atlantic, UK retailer Dixons Carphone admitted in June 2018 that it had... Read more

The march of DevOps from the backroom to the boardroom

By encouraging collaboration and teamwork, removing the barriers between development and operations, and introducing automation, DevOps speeds up software delivery and enables features to move from the fingers of developers into the hands of customers faster. It’s an important topic to stay current with because software development is no longer confined to the usual... Read more

Why code quality is vital in the world of database DevOps

Everyone understands the importance of code quality for applications, particularly when DevOps results in releases becoming faster and faster, reducing the room for error. The same issues increasingly apply to databases, which are a vital part of DevOps workflows. Fail to integrate the database into DevOps and you’ll face bottlenecks that slow down your... Read more

Making the database key to DevOps with comprehensive, customizable monitoring

The speed of business today demands that the development and deployment of applications is fast-moving, with frequent yet error-free releases. That’s why the adoption of DevOps is trickling down from Amazon, Facebook, Google and the other usual suspects to every company that relies on technology to drive its communications or sales with users. The... Read more

Database subsetting. What it is, what it’s for, and why we’d love to hear from you.

We’re looking into database subsetting, and if you need it or are investigating it, we want to hear from you. Please share your thoughts in the comment section below. What is database subsetting? Database subsetting is creating a copy of a database that contains only a portion of the data, while still being referentially... Read more

Traditional database security doesn’t protect data

It seems every week there’s a new data breach to read (or tweet) about. I recently discovered this lovely visualization of the growing amount of private data about people like you and me that is being exposed. You can filter and/or sort the data by industry sector, method of leak and data sensitivity. It... Read more

Welcome to the new world of curating data, not owning it

Faced with the new challenges of data protection – and increased levels of oversight – many of us working with SQL Server have come to the same conclusion. Quite simply, the column names and free text descriptions available to us to describe the data in our care (or data-containing artefacts like columns, tables and... Read more

Why you should automate your release pipeline

Release Day used to mean weekends spent deploying the latest code, database changes, and website content. Release teams would huddle together in war rooms troubleshooting issues, deploying hotfixes, coordinating deployments, testing, fixing, and redeploying again and again. As the trend in development shifts toward more agile delivery, and customers clamor for continuous deployment, this... Read more

The 2018 State of DevOps Survey. Don’t just wait for it. Be a part of it.

The annual State of DevOps Survey from DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) has become a valued part of the IT information landscape. Each year, it identifies the issues that matter the most to IT professionals, and unlocks new findings to help improve the resource management, productivity and quality of IT teams. There’s an additional... Read more

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