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Key Findings for Database Professionals from the Accelerate State of DevOps Report 2019

The Accelerate: State of DevOps Report 2019 has just been published. Accelerate is the longest running study of DevOps in academia or industry and this year’s report is the latest six years of research and had more than 31,000 survey responses. In the 2019 edition, research again shows that DevOps drives business value: high... Read more

Flyway 6.0.0 Released

Flyway 6.0.0 is out! This is the first full release by Redgate, and contains many new features and improvements over Flyway 5.2.4. This version also adds more features and fixes on top of the previous beta releases. Highlights The highlights of the 6.0.0 release include: You can find a detailed list of issues fixed in the release notes.... Read more

Flyway at Redgate – meet the team

So Flyway has joined the Redgate stable… A quick word of introduction – I’m Julia Hayward, I’ve been a software engineer for 26 years, four of those at Redgate, and I’ll be looking after Flyway. This is my first blog on flywaydb.org, and after a week of learning my way around the whole of Flyway’s... Read more

Learning from the Accelerate “Four Key Metrics”

There’s been a lot of excitement about the book Accelerate, which summarizes research from the past several years of the State of DevOps Report from DORA (which Redgate sponsors). Perhaps the most popular topic is the “four measures of software delivery performance”, sometimes called “Accelerate metrics” or simply the “four key metrics”. We’ve started... Read more

The next chapter of Flyway

In early 2010 I was doing some work around deployment automation. As part of this effort, I decided to tackle the problem of rolling out database changes along with the application consistently across environments, I wanted a tool that could be tightly integrated with application deployment, worked with plain SQL, and was simple to... Read more

5 reasons to read IDC’s Executive Brief on Compliant Database DevOps

Ahead of our attendance at IDC’s DevOps Conference in September 2019, we approached Jen Thomson, IDC’s Senior Research Director & Lead for Accelerated App Delivery Practice, to help us articulate how pivotal the database estate and the supporting team are in enterprises seeking to optimize software delivery. The resulting Executive Brief, Compliant Database DevOps:... Read more

What are the biggest challenges in monitoring SQL Server, and what should you expect from a third-party tool?

Redgate has just published the 2019 State of SQL server Monitoring Report, so I thought I’d read it to find out if the results it reveals chime with my own experience talking to large, distributed enterprises about the challenges they face when it comes to monitoring. Based on a survey of 820 database professionals... Read more

How to unlock the budget for your next IT initiative – free Redgate webinar

When you’ve got a great idea for transforming software development or IT processes in your organization, it can be frustrating. You might have a clear picture of what you can achieve, but often you’re not sure how to get buy-in from key stakeholders, or how to change your company culture. It can be made... Read more

Enter data privacy. Exit SQL Server 2008.

SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 are out of extended support as of July 2019, but the end of bug fixes, security updates and ongoing support has far-reaching data privacy implications, as James Boother from Microsoft Gold Partner, Coeo, explains. Microsoft products typically have five years of mainstream support, followed by five... Read more

Level Up 2019, Redgate’s Internal Tech Conference

On Tuesday 19th March 2019, Redgate held our second annual internal product development conference, Level Up 2019. The conference took place at the Imperial War Museum Duxford, and involved 120 Redgaters coming together to share skills, knowledge, and ideas with their colleagues. At Redgate, learning and development is important to us. We believe encouraging... Read more

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