As cases of COVID-19 spread worldwide and concerns mount, organizations everywhere are responding with efforts to maintain the flow of business while keeping employees and their families safe. Development and IT teams everywhere are either validating that their team may effectively work from home or have already moved to a full-time working-from-home policy. Teams... Read more
In this post I’d like to share some insights specific to Enterprises, which we define as organizations with 1,000 or more employees in the 2020 State of Database DevOps Report. We received over 2,000 responses to the report this year and, of those respondents who reported the size of their organization, 41% came from... Read more
I’m excited to announce that Redgate has published the fourth annual State of Database DevOps Report. This year we had more than 2,000 respondents to our survey on development and deployment practices for database changes. As in the previous three years of the report, responses came from developers, database specialists, and IT leadership around... Read more
A great part of working at Redgate is that I get to know folks in our software development teams. They’re smart, fun people, and I love getting a view into how they build our solutions. This post is the first in a series where I’ll interview members of our Versioning and Automation team over... Read more
I recently gave a Redgate University webinar with Chris Kerswell and Thomas Walsh. Giving webinars as a team is terrific, as it shows how we work at Redgate. Chris is a Sales Engineer, Tom is a Software Engineer, and I’m a DevOps Advocate. Behind the scenes, we often work together across these groups to... Read more
SQL Change Automation's Development component for developing new databases and modifying existing databases, using migrations, now integrates directly into SQL Server Management Studio as well Visual Studio. It allows teams to collaborate effectively during development, regardless of their preferred IDE, and in a way that integrates easily with common build/integration servers and release management... Read more
The Accelerate: State of DevOps Report 2019 has just been published. Accelerate is the longest running study of DevOps in academia or industry and this year’s report is the latest six years of research and had more than 31,000 survey responses. In the 2019 edition, research again shows that DevOps drives business value: high... Read more
I recently did some research on the source of data breaches and in this article, I’m going to talk a bit about my current favorite source for breach information, and what I learned. Verizon publishes the Data Breach Investigations Report annually and the latest report is the 11th edition, so they’ve had some practice.... Read more
Kendra Little shows how to get the WideWorldImporters database into version control, using SQL Source Control, and then set up an automated database build process, using Azure DevOps with SQL Change Automation. Read more
I’m excited to be giving a 75-minute session on ‘Capturing the Value of DevOps’ at the upcoming SQL in the City Summits in New York City on October 12, London on October 18, and Chicago on October 26. The Summits are for C-level IT executives, directors, managers, and senior database engineers and administrators interested in... Read more
Compliant Database DevOps
Standardize team-based development
Automate database deployments
Monitor performance and availability
Protect and preserve data
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