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Extending DevOps practices to SQL Server databases – DevOps webinar Q&A

Even with the right tooling, it can be tricky figuring out how to get an automated database deployment pipeline up and running. That’s why each month we host an hour-long DevOps webinar with an end-to-end demo of our database automation tools, showing how to check a database change into version control, automate the build... Read more

Universal Architecture

In this post, I’d like to introduce you to the Universal Architecture idea described by J.B. Rainsberger in the podcast Unit Testability and the Universal Architecture. Everyone wants to deliver software that works and delivers value to our customers. That’s a fact! Everyone wants our software to be easy to change and maintain. That’s obvious! Unfortunately, we... Read more

Time travelling with SQL Compare

In SQL Server 2016, Microsoft introduced support for system-versioned temporal tables. Temporal tables are a database feature that provides information about data stored at any point in time, rather than only the data that is correct at that specific moment. Why are temporal tables needed? Simply put, they make it much easier to analyze... Read more

How to customize your formatting styles with SQL Prompt Pro

SQL code formatting is a very popular SQL Prompt feature. For many years, it’s done a great job of transforming illegible SQL code into a layout that’s very readable for most users. That said, many users have been asking us for greater control over their formatting styles. Take a browse through our UserVoice page,... Read more

Announcing Redgate Data Tools in Visual Studio 2017

Visual Studio 2017 is released today, and its new features like Live Unit Testing and configurable code style rules have already been grabbing the headlines. But inside the Visual Studio 2017 installer, another big surprise awaits: Redgate Data Tools. We’ve partnered with Microsoft so Visual Studio Enterprise subscribers can install ReadyRoll Core, SQL Prompt... Read more

SQL Bits 2017 – at the disco’tech’

We’re now just one month away from SQL Bits, a data conference bringing together the largest European gathering of Microsoft data platform professionals from 28 countries. Redgate is proud to have sponsored SQL Bits since the event began in 2007. This year, we’re especially looking forward to being part of SQL Bits ‘Disco’, which... Read more

“Alexa – how did Redgate create a skill for SQL Clone?”

SQL Clone is a database provisioning tool from Redgate. It creates a data image, which is a copy of a database at a particular point in time, and then from that image it can create multiple, lightweight, database clones (a few tens of MB each) for deployment to the development and test servers. Each... Read more

We’ve ‘cloned’ SQL in the City Streamed

Following the success of SQL in the City Streamed back in December, we’re excited to let you know that we’re running another virtual live stream event this month. This time, it will focus exclusively on our new tool, SQL Clone. Join the SQL Clone product launch Live Stream on 29th March Our popular evangelists and... Read more

New tool, new release – we just shipped SQL Clone version 1!

Over 300 days, 30 builds, 4,000 beta users and 1,000 cups of coffee later and … we’ve shipped version 1 of our new database provisioning tool, SQL Clone. So what is SQL Clone? What’s in version 1? What’s on the roadmap? Oh, and some of you may be wondering, what’s the sheep all about? Let’s... Read more

Visual Studio turns 20 – how are you celebrating?

The following are just some of the anecdotes from Redgaters here at Redgate HQ when I asked them for their reflections on 20 years of Visual Studio. Almost all of our developers use Visual Studio every day, so there are a lot of memories to share: I’ve been using Visual Studio since VS6, 15 years... Read more

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