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Jamie Wallis

2 July 2020

2 July 2020

Automate Responses to Bad Deployments with Redgate Monitor

Jamie Wallis explains how SQL Monitor can both reveal quickly who ran a deployment, and when, and automate the incident-response workflow to ensure it's dealt with swiftly. By extending such workflows to development and test servers, as well as production, the feedback cycle starts earlier, and you can stop problems from ever reaching the... Read more

21 May 2020

21 May 2020

Understanding the State of Database Monitoring in 2020

In 2018 and 2019 we ran the industry’s only surveys into the state of SQL Server monitoring, both of which provided unique insights into how companies and organizations monitor their estates, the technologies they work with, and the biggest challenges they face. In Redgate’s third annual survey on the state of monitoring, still the... Read more

State of Database Monitoring

5 November 2019

5 November 2019

The value of monitoring at BMW

A while ago, James King of Redgate spoke to Tony Maddonna, Microsoft Platform Team Lead and SQL Server Enterprise Architect at BMW about the growing SQL Server estate at the car manufacturer, and how and why monitoring such a large estate is so important. The conversation was recorded and the video above is... Read more

25 October 2019

25 October 2019

Why Redgate has Product Marketing Managers and Product Managers

You may be under the impression that Product Marketing Managers and Product Managers fulfil the same function. At some organizations they do; defining the commercial position of the product and working with, or within, the product teams to ensure development matches the business strategy. So why would a software company hire both? At Redgate... Read more

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14 March 2019

14 March 2019

Have your say on the state of SQL Server monitoring

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

Redgate Monitor

The State of SQL Server Monitoring

18 September 2017

18 September 2017

How to examine differences with SQL Compare Summary View and SQL View

Jamie Wallis introduces the new Summary View, which is a tab that sits alongside SQL View and provides a more concise breakdown of the differences between two objects. Read more

15 September 2017

15 September 2017

Product marketing, the Redgate way

On your first day at Redgate you get a packet of Jammie Dodgers. Although I was never told exactly what to do with them, the implied meaning was that they were to help me get to know my colleagues. If I shared them around the office over a cup of coffee, it might help... Read more

1 August 2017

1 August 2017

A whole new way to see differences in SQL Compare

SQL Compare 12.4 adds the Summary view, a tab that sits alongside SQL view and provides a more concise breakdown of the differences between two objects. Read more

1 June 2017

1 June 2017

How to style your SQL using SQL Prompt’s new formatting options

The ability to customize and refine formatting options has long been a feature of SQL Prompt. In the eighth major update to the tool, we’ve introduced a brand new formatting engine that lets you manage your formatting options like never before. Not only can you set your style exactly how you like it, with... Read more

20 March 2017

20 March 2017

SQL Prompt to the rescue with tab coloring

When you’re hard at work, it’s all too easy to make a mistake as you rush to get a job done. Say, for example, you have a QA database you need to get rid of. You run a query to drop it and then… oh no! You’ve accidentally run it in Production. Your day... Read more