Redgate Blog

16 February 2015

5 Must-Read Database Modeling Books?

I recently realized that our database modeling library could use a few more advanced titles. So I headed over to Amazon to see what they had on offer. There are plenty of introductory books for beginners that tell you how to normalize data, and introduce you to indexes, but what about something for the... Read more

Claire Brooking

9 February 2015

Claire Brooking

9 February 2015

Redgate partners with DZone to release 2015 Guide to Continuous Delivery

We’re excited to be a research partner for DZone’s Guide to Continuous Delivery, a premium resource focused on continuous integration and DevOps management trends, strategies, and tools. In the Guide to Continuous Delivery, you’ll get an overview of the latest practices and how continuous delivery affects many aspects of an organization. It includes: •... Read more

continuous integration

Database DevOps

Redgate Data Modeler

5 February 2015

Redgate Data Modeler

5 February 2015

How to Store Employees’ Schedules in a Database

So many organizations face the common problem of storing employee schedules. No matter what institution: a company, a university or simply an individual, many entities need an application to view schedules. Therefore, I will try to come up with a database model and then, in a future article, we’ll talk about a simple application... Read more

Alastair Smith

2 February 2015

Alastair Smith

2 February 2015

Desire Lines in software architecture: what can we learn from landscape architecture?

Before Christmas I was talking with Simon about an architectural approach we’d taken on a recent project. The aim of the project is to replace an existing WinForms user interface with a shiny new HTML and JavaScript version. Part of this involves making HTTP requests back to the “engine” of the product, a .NET... Read more

Agile development

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desire lines

Redgate Data Modeler

27 January 2015

Redgate Data Modeler

27 January 2015

How I Use the Vertabelo API With Gradle

One of the exciting moments in a programmer’s life is to leave legacy code behind and have fun with some new, fresh and cool tools. Today I have just such an opportunity – I’m creating the structure of a new project in Java. Read more

Revathi Nathaniel

19 January 2015

Revathi Nathaniel

19 January 2015

User research- it’s better as a team sport

User research is a team sport as many user research teams – particularly those working in agile development teams, such as the GDS User research team – have discovered. This discovery is perhaps due to the growing realisation that user research in the agile software development cycle has the greatest impact when it isn’t... Read more

12 January 2015

12 January 2015

Top 3 tips for software testing a mature product

Developers and testers generally don’t like to work on a mature product with a legacy code base, especially when the majority of the team has no previous knowledge of either. Having said that, while building and testing a mature product can prove a lot more challenging than tackling a greenfield one, my recent experiences suggest there... Read more

exploratory testing

Redgate Data Modeler

7 January 2015

Redgate Data Modeler

7 January 2015

Data Dictionary Support: Generate Comments for Your Database

Most relational databases allow you to define comments for their tables, columns, views, and so on. These additional pieces of information are called database meta data or data dictionary. Meta data may be useful for developers or other database users. Meta data allow the development team to understand what various tables or columns are... Read more

Graham Helliwell

18 December 2014

Graham Helliwell

18 December 2014

What’s in a (strong) name?

Package managers are brilliant. The obvious win is the convenience of versioning your dependencies without having to commit binaries to Git. Lots of people use package managers for third party dependencies, but I’m going to talk about using them for components within an organisation. This is where package managers fulfil their true potential – making... Read more

16 December 2014

16 December 2014

Visual Design of SQLAlchemy Models in 6 Steps

In this article I’m going to show you how to design SQLAlchemy models using Vertabelo, an online tool for visual database design, and our code generator. Read more

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Redgate Blog

5 Must-Read Database Modeling Books?

Redgate partners with DZone to release 2015 Guide to Continuous Delivery

How to Store Employees’ Schedules in a Database

Desire Lines in software architecture: what can we learn from landscape architecture?

How I Use the Vertabelo API With Gradle

User research- it’s better as a team sport

Top 3 tips for software testing a mature product

Data Dictionary Support: Generate Comments for Your Database

What’s in a (strong) name?

Visual Design of SQLAlchemy Models in 6 Steps

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Introduction to PostgreSQL for the data professional