Philip Liddell

19 March 2020

Philip Liddell

19 March 2020

Timestamps and Repeatable Migrations

In Flyway 6.3.0 we introduced a new feature. The ability to use the ${flyway:timestamp} placeholder (See Placeholders for more details). This placeholder will insert the current date in the format yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss as its value. Now, this has some very obvious uses such as storing the date a migration was executed into your database. However, there is something more complex... Read more

Annabel Bradford

19 March 2020

Annabel Bradford

19 March 2020

There’s no place like home to join us at Redgate Streamed

Redgate is closely monitoring developments related to the COVID-19 outbreak and has already put in place measures to ensure the safety of our employees while still fully supporting our customers. We back the decision many conference organisers have made, by postponing their events until later in the year or switching them to virtual events.... Read more

Jeremiah Peschka

10 March 2020

Jeremiah Peschka

10 March 2020

Key actions to take with your monitoring system in preparation for COVID-19

You may think of monitoring as helping you optimize your server performance and ensure availability, particularly in times of technical crisis. But did you know, monitoring helps your teams work together in times of human-based crisis as well. Organizations everywhere are taking action to ensure business continuity and to minimize customer impact, whether employees... Read more

Kendra Little

10 March 2020

Kendra Little

10 March 2020

How Database DevOps can support remote working in the age of Coronavirus

As cases of COVID-19 spread worldwide and concerns mount, organizations everywhere are responding with efforts to maintain the flow of business while keeping employees and their families safe. Development and IT teams everywhere are either validating that their team may effectively work from home or have already moved to a full-time working-from-home policy. Teams... Read more

Rael Winters

9 March 2020

Rael Winters

9 March 2020

Cloud migration: 5 common traps and how to avoid them

For most organizations, migrating to the cloud happens in four broad phases. First, there’s the opportunistic phase: skunkworks projects and new systems start to use public cloud, with or without the blessing of corporate IT. Next there’s the cloud-first stage. Early cloud projects are performing well, so new ones are deployed there as a... Read more

Andrea Giardina

6 March 2020

Andrea Giardina

6 March 2020

5 reasons why Product Marketing at Redgate is world-class

The Redgate Product Marketing team has grown significantly over the past year and, as a new arrival, I’m fascinated by the impact Product Marketing has on the organization, the products and the processes that it drives. In this blog post I want to share five reasons why I think it can be considered world-class... Read more

Philip Liddell

5 March 2020

Philip Liddell

5 March 2020

Flyway 6.3.0 Released

Flyway 6.3.0 is out! This release contains new features and improvements over Flyway 6.2.0. Highlights The highlights of the features introduced since the 6.2.0 release include: New in Flyway 6.3.0 Introduced in patch releases since Flyway 6.2.0 You can find a detailed list of issues fixed in the release notes. Load default configuration files API method... Read more

Octopus Deploy

2 March 2020

Octopus Deploy

2 March 2020

How to design an automated database deployment process

For many companies and organizations, automated database deployments are the final piece of the Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery puzzle They need to go from deployments that take hours down to minutes. I know from personal experience that it can take many attempts to successfully automate database deployments and the failures aren’t because of... Read more