Working in dedicated development environments for the database is the ideal for many. This is the message we frequently hear throughout the industry from thought leaders, at conferences, and in many written pieces about implementing best practices. Yet 46% of developers still work in shared environments, as highlighted in the 2019 State of Database... Read more
These are tough times for businesses in the EU. Is the UK going to be in or out? Will it be a managed deal or no deal? Will it happen next week, next month, or never? What’s the latest twist in the tale? Quite simply, businesses are finding it difficult to plan anything when... Read more
The financial services sector is undergoing a transformation. Tech giants like Google, Apple and Amazon are stepping into the frame with digital wallets, mobile payments and lending services, and FinTech startups are setting new standards for digital innovation and customer experience. All of which is encouraging established financial service companies to rethink themselves as... Read more
In the Foundry Team at Redgate, we’ve been looking into how data professionals manage the complexities of their wider data estates. One aspect of this is configuring, deploying and monitoring drift across their numerous servers. I recently wrote a deep dive into our qualitative research findings and, alongside that research, we also conducted a survey with 95 SQL... Read more
If you’ve read the Accelerate State of DevOps Report from DORA and the 2019 State of Database DevOps report from Redgate, you’ll see how they resonate in terms of the benefits to be gained from adopting DevOps. In short, 85% of organizations have already adopted DevOps or plan to do so in the next... Read more
In 2018 we ran the industry’s first ever state of SQL Server monitoring survey. We received an excellent response from over 600 people in a range of sectors, in organizations of every size across the globe. They provided valuable insights into what they thought the biggest challenges were for them and their estates over... Read more
In the R&D division of Redgate, Foundry, we’re working on a new tool, SQL Census, in an effort to make your SQL Server permissions more manageable by seeing who has access to your servers and restructuring existing access rights into a simpler and more compliant format. We’re now building out the SQL Census preview... Read more
If developers and testers work with a database that has similar data characteristics and is of a similar size to production, it will lead to fewer surprises when deploying database changes and help the team troubleshoot urgent production bugs or performance issues. Likewise, if developers have an easy way to spin up multiple database... Read more
2018 will be remembered as the year the world stood up and took note of how slack some organizations were being with their data. The EU enacted the GDPR – the most far reaching data protection law so far – which seemed to lead to a snowball effect. Japan, Australia, India, and US states... Read more
In 2018, the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) was faced with the challenge of putting into place the processes that would enable it to comply with the GDPR as well as upcoming legislation like the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and New York’s SHIELD Act. Each of the regulations affects any organization that... Read more
Compliant Database DevOps
