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
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
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
Earlier this year, we ran a DevOps 101 webinar in conjunction with Redgate to a predominately DBA audience. In this blog post our own DBA, Paul Ibison, gives his views on what DevOps means from a DBA perspective. Note that Paul is a SQL Server DBA, so some of the comments are specific to... Read more
Our recent State of Database DevOps survey showed that DevOps practices like continuous delivery are still far more commonplace in application development than in database development. So why is that – and why should teams care? Building great software is never just about the code. It’s also about managing multiple teams, timelines, and frequently... Read more
When I attended PASS Summit recently, I sat down with Chris Yates, Assistant Vice President and Database Administration Manager of Republic Bank, to understand more about their day-to-day development tasks and how Redgate tools have helped improve their development practices. This is their story. “In a previous life, SQL Server database comparisons and deployments... Read more
At the end of 2015, we interviewed James Betteley, Head of Education at DevOpsGuys about the role of the database in DevOps. James is a firm believer that DevOps is about people and processes, and that while automation tools are necessary, they are not sufficient for a team to be a DevOps team. Here’s what... Read more
Good question. Redgate recently ran a State of Database DevOps survey among 1,000 software professionals. The survey included developers, database administrators, and those at management level, and over half of the companies involved employed more than 500 people. I took a quick glance at the results in a recent blog post and talked about some surprising findings:... Read more
At Redgate, we think DevOps is now sufficiently mainstream and that it’s worth businesses thinking of moving to a database DevOps type of world. One of the reasons is the 2016 State of DevOps Report from Puppet Labs. They interviewed 4,500 people about their experiences of DevOps and the report provides some strong evidence... Read more
Here at Redgate, there’s a strong sense of working as a team, even across functions, and that really came through during the preparations for this year’s virtual SQL in the City Streamed. Doing a live stream isn’t something I’ve put my hand to before, but I knew a guy – two guys in fact. They... Read more
