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Tonie Huizer

Tonie Huizer is a Software, Data, and DevOps Consultant who believes good tech starts with understanding your people.

A regular on international stages and a Microsoft Certified Azure Developer, Tonie loves helping teams simplify complex challenges; whether that’s modernizing database deployments, designing scalable systems, or just getting Dev and Ops to finally talk to each other.

He is also a Redgate Community Ambassador, and co-leads SeaQL Saturday, a community-driven and canine-friendly event in the Netherlands.

Tonie Huizer

23 April 2025

Tonie Huizer

23 April 2025

Reducing Database Complexity and Size using Subsetting

Getting realistic test data from large production databases can be a challenge, especially when you're trying to keep dev environments lightweight and secure. Redgate Test Data Manager includes a subsetting CLI that simplifies this by letting you generate smaller, fully representative subsets automatically. This article will walk you through getting started: from setup and... Read more

Tonie Huizer

16 September 2024

Tonie Huizer

16 September 2024

The Importance of Access Checks and Controls in Database Development

This article illustrates the importance in any database development project of a 'multi-layered' approach to database access controls and security checks, based on the Principle of Least Privilege. It describes a security incident that was raised when databases related to a local development project were found to have been erroneously deployed to a remote... Read more

Tonie Huizer

26 June 2024

Tonie Huizer

26 June 2024

Simpler Enterprise Test Data Management using Database Instance Provisioning

Business applications are rarely self-contained, often depending on multiple interconnected databases, each playing a vital role in the functioning of the system. How can we create, refresh, and maintain test data for these complex database systems, and still support dedicated databases and test-driven development processes? This article explains how database instance provisioning helps meet... Read more

Tonie Huizer

9 January 2024

Tonie Huizer

9 January 2024

Automated Provisioning of Multi-Database Environments in a Flyway Development

This article describes how we implemented lightweight database provisioning, using clones, within an automated Flyway release process . It allows users to self-serve personal copies of a complex multi-database system, in a way that is transparent, supports flexible Git branching and merging strategies and agile releases, but does not compromise data security nor add... Read more

Tonie Huizer

16 March 2023

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Tonie Huizer

16 March 2023

3 Comments

Working with Flyway And Entity Framework Code First: An Overview

This article presents an approach to database development and deployment that combines the strengths of Entry Framework Code First for .NET-driven development with the control and database versioning provided by Flyway's SQL migrations. It allows every database change to be reviewed and tested for integrity, performance, and stability in the same way as any... Read more

Tonie Huizer

7 December 2022

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Tonie Huizer

7 December 2022

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A Version Control Strategy for Database DevOps

Our goal was to transform a 'serial' and manual development and release process into one that supported parallel development work and automated releases. This article explains step one: migrating our monolithic, centralized repos to Git, then implementing a Release Flow branching strategy for parallel development work streams, and a Pull Request workflow to control... Read more