Redgate Blog

7 October 2014

What Is a Database Index?

Sooner or later there comes a moment when database performance is no longer satisfactory. One of the very first things you should turn to when that happens is database indexing. This article will give you a general overview on what indexes are without digging into too much detail. Read more

Chris Smith

1 October 2014

Chris Smith

1 October 2014

Visualizing team work: physical taskboards vs virtual taskboards

I’m a project manager, so unsurprisingly I can find myself in animated conversations with other project managers regarding how best to manage the work that our team members are doing. We all have our favourite techniques and methods, but the process generally starts with making the work each member of… Read more

16 September 2014

16 September 2014

Comparison of Web-Based Tools for Data Modeling

In this article, I will try to compare two database modelers: Redgate Data Modeler and Sea Quail Database Diagram Tool. Here is a matrix of each tool’s key features and functionality. Read more

Redgate Data Modeler

9 September 2014

Redgate Data Modeler

9 September 2014

Redgate Data Modeler XML version 2.1

Redgate Data Modeler internally stores your model in an XML format. You can download the XML file and use it to extract some information by using a script. Let’s take a look at the structure of this XML file. Read more

David Atkinson

5 September 2014

David Atkinson

5 September 2014

The (r)evolution starts here

Sssshhh. There’s a revolution going on. Quietly, purposefully, and without fanfare, Database Lifecycle Management is looming on the horizon for every developer and DBA. A continuous, agile-based approach to integrating, coordinating and managing the different phases of database delivery. Whoah, there. Database Lifecycle Management? Application Lifecycle Management, yes, but how… Read more

27 August 2014

27 August 2014

Providing help documentation for PowerShell cmdlets

We’ve been working on a new product that involves writing Windows PowerShell cmdlets (pronounced “commandlets”) for our customers to use and, to make their lives easy, we want to provide rich built-in help documentation. There’s no easy way to do this out of the box, so I’ve written a tool… Read more

25 August 2014

25 August 2014

How to filter tables in the Redgate Data Modeler reverse engineering tool

Sometimes you don't want the reverse engineering tool to extract all of the tables in your database. For example, the database may contain technical tables which are logically are not part of the model. This is when the -regexp option comes in handy. Read more

Redgate Data Modeler

25 August 2014

Redgate Data Modeler

25 August 2014

Database engine usage by Redgate Data Modeler users

The Redgate Data Modeler journey continues … We now have almost 10,000 users and the number of Redgate Data Modeler advocates keeps growing strong. Redgate Data Modeler users come from over 100 countries and speak various languages. What unites them? The relational database. Read more

Marine Barbaroux

13 August 2014

Marine Barbaroux

13 August 2014

UX katas – heuristic evaluation

The “extended” UX team sharpening their swords… At Redgate, our software engineers run regular “code katas”, workshops where developers practise their coding skills on simple problems, then discuss the experience afterwards as a learning exercise. So, a while ago, I thought it might be a good idea to use the… Read more

6 August 2014

6 August 2014

UML Notation

UML is popular for its notations. We all know that UML is for visualizing, specifying, and documenting the components of software and non software systems. What's more, UML has many types of diagrams which are divided into two categories. Some types represent structural information, others general types of behavior. Among… Read more

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