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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

Reducing risk with Smart Recommendations in SQL Census

One of the most prominent subjects of the last few months within organizations in many industries across the globe has been centered around data security. Organizational compliance with regulations surrounding management of data is increasingly imperative. Implementing measures to safeguard against risks to data security is vital. SQL Census is a prototype, created by... 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

How DevOps can automate the repayment of technical debt

One of the common things we find in enterprise organizations looking to move to a DevOps model is high levels of technical debt. To be more accurate, they are caught in a vicious cycle of technical debt to the point that trying to ship anything in a rapid, agile way is nearly impossible. It’s... Read more

Product Marketing at Redgate

When talking to friends, family, or even sometimes colleagues, I often get a questioning look when I say I work in Product Marketing. Sure, most people roughly know what Marketing is, but then what’s the ‘product’ bit? Well, I thought I’d make it easier to answer this question by starting a series of blog... Read more

Welcome to Redgate tools for SQL Operations Studio

The Preview release of Microsoft’s SQL Operations Studio marks a big change in database development. Following on from the ability to run SQL Server 2017 on Linux, it makes the promise of cross-platform SQL Server development a reality. Built on top of Visual Studio Code, SQL Operations Studio is a free lightweight tool for... Read more

Join the leading experts in data governance and SQL Server at Redgate’s SQL Privacy Summit

The GDPR is almost here and, just one week before it’s launch, Redgate is hosting the first SQL Privacy Summit in London. The schedule of presentations, panel discussions and workshops has been created to help SQL Server professionals ensure their business meets the new data privacy and protection regulations. On Friday 18 May, the... Read more

So what is data mapping and why is it the key to GDPR compliance?

I’ve read a lot about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) because I’m interested in it both from a professional and personal perspective. I’ve been working with data, as an IT manager in financial services and as a product manager in a data software company, for over 20 years and in many ways the... Read more

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