Kendra Little, Author at Redgate

How to Enable Fast Database DevOps Adoption Across the Enterprise

As a DevOps Advocate at Redgate, I frequently work with Enterprise customers to help them transform their software development process for databases across their entire organization. I don’t do this work alone: Redgate’s development teams have a strong customer focus. Engineers working on our DevOps solutions frequently join the Sales teams and the Advocate... Read more

The Manager’s Guide to Git Training for Database Administrators

Teams implementing DevOps often encounter a significant obstacle: database folks are not all used to working with Version Control Systems (VCS). It’s important to overcome this obstacle because a VCS such as Git offers significant benefits for collaboration between database administrators and developers. Git provides: A platform for early review of code changes by... Read more

New Training for Your Team on Redgate University: Learn DevOps and SQL Server for Free

I’m excited to give you a run down of fresh new online training, open to all on Redgate University. We’ve got a great mix of courses on how to up your game with SQL Server for both database administrators and developers, as well as sessions on how to use Redgate solutions to up your... Read more

The Role of Agents of Change, aka Champions, in Database DevOps Implementations

This week I attended the Virtual DevOps Enterprise Summit. As a sponsor, Redgate held a virtual Happy Hour event in which we chatted with a great group of folks about implementing DevOps within an Enterprise. The conference had great content, but the Happy Hour was one of my favorite bits of the event. One... Read more

Future Proofing: Database DevOps Now and In Two Years

While individual buzzwords will come in and out of fashion, the ideas at the heart of DevOps aren’t going anywhere. In this post, I give my take on three initiatives you should invest in today to transform your database development and operations practices. These initiatives will pay off over time, no matter what changes... Read more

How Database DevOps can support remote working in the age of Coronavirus

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

Enterprise insights from the 2020 State of Database DevOps Report

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

Celebrating a record number of responses for the 2020 State of Database DevOps Report

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

Dev team chat: Adding static data to SQL Change Automation in SSMS

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

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