If you’ve ever been on the London Eye, you’ll probably be one of those people wanting to see the 360⁰ view of London from the top of the wheel, which is the main purpose of the attraction. But as you’re approaching and descending from the peak point, you start to notice things around you... Read more
Want to learn Git? In this video I share a student’s tour of really cool open source website– https://learngitbranching.js.org — that makes learning Git fun. The site is totally free and you don’t need to install anything to get started. Read more
Why and how you should automate database migrations The desire to release features faster and deliver value to customers sooner is prompting many IT teams to adopt DevOps and Agile practices. By automating parts of the development process where possible and working in shorter cycles to release small changes more often, those teams that... Read more
Flyway 7.1.0 is out! This release contains new features and improvements over Flyway 7.0.0. Highlights You can find a detailed list of the changes in the release notes. Filtering info output Flyway Teams In the Flyway CLI output from info can be filtered to only the parts of the history that you care about using the following 4... Read more
I have written a nearly 1,000 page book on SQL Server performance tuning. In several chapters through the book, I outline all the necessary metrics you need to monitor your systems. I also show exactly how to put together those metrics in a variety of tools built into your OS and SQL Server itself.... Read more
In this 20 minute video, we share an easy way to automate "rebaselining" in a database DevOps CI/CD workflow. Follow the video or simply check out the scripts. Read more
As you’ve likely seen we recently released Flyway 7.0.0, containing a lot of new features (read more about what features are available in the blog post). One of the new features is the new Flyway Teams configuration parameter skipExecutingMigrations. This configuration parameter changes migrate to skip executing the contents of the migrations during a flyway migrate or flyway undo, instead just updating... Read more
You don’t even have to leave your house this year to access all the great content PASS Virtual Summit 2020 has to offer, so pull up a chair, slip into your best video conference PJs, and join Redgate for what promises to be three days you won’t want to miss. Join us at the... Read more
We had a recent forum question about Azure DevOps Release Pipelines that prompted me to look a bit into how schedules work in “classic” release pipelines. While Microsoft has documentation on scheduling options, I found that there are multiple places where one can set a schedule. It wasn’t completely clear to me how these... Read more
"Rollbacks" are easily the most controversial topic in database DevOps. In this post, I share why there's no simple solution to the problem of rollbacks -- but how you can still get started with database DevOps and continuously improve over time. Read more
