Redgate Blog

29 November 2013

An alternative way to do customer interviews: the revelation of the JTBD framework

I recently discovered the JTBD framework at Business of Software: what I learnt made me swear that I’ll use it from now on in every customer interview I need to do in order to understand their underlying needs and support our product pipeline. It is that brilliant. It’s like a targeted, systematic guided interview... Read more

27 November 2013

27 November 2013

Theory and History: Why are Relational Databases “Relational”?

Many people wonder why relational databases are called "relational.” Some think that it's because of a logical entity-relationship model you often start your design with. Or, because you have tables and relationships (aka foreign keys) between them. But that's not the case. The name comes from the mathematical notion of "relation." It all started with... Read more

Redgate Data Modeler

20 November 2013

Redgate Data Modeler

20 November 2013

Good news: we now support views

Today we are happy to announce that Vertabelo has a new feature we've been working on for some time – views. Now you can easily add them to the diagram, change their definition and other properties and have them generated in your SQL scripts. Read more

Redgate Data Modeler

9 October 2013

Redgate Data Modeler

9 October 2013

Five reasons why we built Vertabelo

We are launching a new product on a market, so let me tell you the short story about how and why Vertabelo was born. e-point and I personally have more than fifteen years of experience in building business applications. All of them use relational databases as a storage for their data. Most of those applications... Read more

Mark Jordan

19 September 2013

Mark Jordan

19 September 2013

Jade

Writing HTML can be a chore – making sure elements are closed properly can be annoying without proper IDE support, and CSS markup often requires repeated patterns of nested divs and spans in order to get the layout working properly. There are various templating languages and engines available for dealing with this problem. Probably... Read more

4 March 2013

4 March 2013

Redgate, in the words of the founders

Neil and Simon We founded Redgate* in 1999, and, until recently, we ran the company as joint chief executives. Simon is now the CEO, with responsibilities that include developing the leadership team and making sure everything runs smoothly day-to-day. After sharing the CEO role for over 12 years, Neil is taking time off from... Read more

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Neil Davidson

19 December 2012

Neil Davidson

19 December 2012

A note from Neil Davidson, co-founder of Redgate Software

In the late summer of 1999 I made one of the most important phone calls of my life. It was to my good friend – one of my best friends – Simon Galbraith. When I called him, Simon had been working for Shell in Holland for a couple of years. I was working for a... Read more

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Redgate Blog

An alternative way to do customer interviews: the revelation of the JTBD framework

Theory and History: Why are Relational Databases “Relational”?

Good news: we now support views

Five reasons why we built Vertabelo

Jade

Redgate, in the words of the founders

A note from Neil Davidson, co-founder of Redgate Software

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