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How to stop standardization being a stumbling block in database DevOps

Updated July 2020 More and more enterprises are seeing the merit of introducing DevOps to speed up application and database development and deliver value into hands of their customers faster. The collaboration and cooperation it encourages typically reduces errors, cuts down delays and removes the pain from deployments. That’s the good news. The downside... Read more

The Role of Agents of Change, aka Champions, in Database DevOps Implementations

This week I attended the Virtual DevOps Enterprise Summit. As a sponsor, Redgate held a virtual Happy Hour event in which we chatted with a great group of folks about implementing DevOps within an Enterprise. The conference had great content, but the Happy Hour was one of my favorite bits of the event. One... Read more

The Redgate Streamed APAC Edition – proof that virtual events can still be local events

In light of the current pandemic, IT conferences and events across the world are being cancelled, postponed – or moved to the virtual space. At Redgate, we’ve been doing the same with a series of free online webinars, livestreams and training courses. But at 8am Australian Eastern Standard Time on Thursday, July 2, we’re... Read more

Flyway 6.5.0 Released

Flyway 6.5.0 is out! This release contains new features and improvements over Flyway 6.4.0. Highlights You can find a detailed list of the changes in the release notes. Toggle schema creation By default, Flyway will attempt to create the schemas provided by the schemas and defaultSchema configuration options. This behavior can be toggled with the createSchemas configuration option. This might be useful... Read more

Future Proofing: Database DevOps Now and In Two Years

While individual buzzwords will come in and out of fashion, the ideas at the heart of DevOps aren’t going anywhere. In this post, I give my take on three initiatives you should invest in today to transform your database development and operations practices. These initiatives will pay off over time, no matter what changes... Read more

What I’ve learned from 10 years of remote working

At a Redgate Summit in May, I gave a 20-minute presentation on the challenges of working from home. I presented on the topic, because, unlike many people, I’ve been working remotely my entire time at Redgate. That’s almost 10 years of remote work. So I’ve managed to screw up quite a few things and... Read more

Join us at the DevOps Enterprise Summit and learn all about database DevOps for enterprises

This year, the DevOps Enterprise Summit London is going virtual. From June 23 to June 25, it will offer three full days of immersive online learning in a collaborative and innovative environment. Expect a world-class line-up of speakers, a packed agenda, and the opportunity to learn about the tools and practices needed to implement... Read more

Can the shared development model work without shared environments?

Discussions about the pros and cons of the shared and dedicated development models have been going on for a long time. As far back as 2011 the well-known Microsoft Regional Director and MVP, Troy Hunt, wrote a long and impassioned article on Simple Talk, titled: The unnecessary evil of the shared development database. You... Read more

JVM Properties

At its core, Flyway is a Java library, though it hooks into many clients which are frequently used in non-Java contexts. For non-Java contexts we’d like Flyway to be as platform-agnostic as possible. Nonetheless, some Java-specific concepts have to be exposed, like our use of Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) drivers. The Flyway Command Line... Read more

Continuous Integration vs Continuous Deployment

The terms Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment tend to be combined into the acronym CI/CD, often without any distinction between the two. CI and CD are distinct processes, even if this combining of terms suggests that Continuous Deployment is an extension of Continuous Integration, and the execution of both processes is the responsibility of a single tool. Assuming... Read more

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