What Is an ERD in Database Design?

In this article, we’ll walk you through the steps of creating an entity-relationship diagram (ERD). We’ll explain when you need to use an ERD and what notations and tools are used to build ER diagrams. An entity-relationship diagram (or ERD) is a visual representation of entities and their relationships in a database. ERDs are... Read more

Louise Domeisen

17 March 2023

Louise Domeisen

17 March 2023

How DevOps is shaping Financial Services #1: The role of governance

In this series of blog posts, we speak with database professionals from Financial Services organizations around the world to better understand how DevOps is shaping the sector. On the way, we dig into key current factors including the rise of technology upstarts in fintech and insurtech, the speed of digital transformation and the ever-increasing... Read more

Matt Hilbert

23 February 2023

Matt Hilbert

23 February 2023

5 things to look for in a third-party monitoring tool

Update, 28 February 2024: A new edition of this article can be found here.  A key finding from Redgate’s last State of Database Monitoring Survey of over 2,500 IT professionals was that 79% of respondents reported using either a third-party or in-house monitoring tool. It’s notable because it was an increase of 10 percentage... Read more