Hopefully you’ve already heard about DLM Dashboard? It’s Redgate’s new free tool for helping anyone who’s responsible for knowing what database schema is deployed where. If you hadn’t heard of it please feel free to download it, set it up, and come back to reading this post in about half an hour… Back with... Read more
If not, why don’t give it a go? As a company which adopts an agile methodology, testing is an integral part of the development process at Redgate. Team exploratory testing is an approach we take so that everyone on a team, from the developers to the support engineers as well as the project and... Read more
In the conclusion to Part 2 of this series of articles, I mentioned that I would be adding more advanced features, such as conditional ordering of questions in a survey, administration of the survey, reports and analytics. In this third article related to an online survey, I will extend the functionality to support conditional... Read more
As a project manager, the process of deploying software can be fraught with anxiety and dread. I can think about numerous times in my career where, in the shadow of an approaching release deadline, the thought of having to deploy our application was akin to contemplating an imminent visit to the dentist. In fact,... Read more
There are books that you plan to read. Then, there are books that you actually started reading and then stopped. Then, there are books you started reading and you hope to finish sometime. The last database book I did read was "Concise Guide to Databases" by Peter Lake and Paul Crowther. Read more
A question we often get asked is how to deploy specific variations of a database to different customers. Or how to deploy different static configuration data to each customer, and how to version control, test and deploy this per customer in an automated way. In the post below I’m going to run through an... Read more
“Every software development team should have a fully automated deployment process.” That’s according to pretty much everyone I meet at conferences and events. It’s not even a debate. It’s a declaration. In actual fact there are only a small number of software development teams who have a ‘one-click’, totally hands-off approach. In Redgate’s latest... Read more
Our users sometimes say to us: “Vertabelo is awesome but... how can I add the data?” That's why I decided to show you how to set up a simple PostgreSQL database in the Cloud using a database model created in Vertabelo, and cloud-based PostgreSQL server hosted by ElephantSQL. So let's dive into the Cloud! Read more
In part 1 of this article series, we discussed a basic design for an online survey. In the conclusion to that article, I mentioned part 2 would cover more advanced features for our survey. Let’s start by extending the functionality to support different types of questions. Read more
