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
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
Kendra Little demonstrates how to create a SQL Compare filter file and save it to a SQL Change Automation project folder, so that it will be used automatically during development. Read more
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
Compliant Database DevOps
Standardize team-based development
Automate database deployments
Monitor performance and availability
Protect and preserve data
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