Redgate Blog

18 December 2020

A quick guide to the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020 for DBAs

December 1 saw the introduction in New Zealand of the Privacy Act 2020 which not only brings increased protection for individuals but also has some new implications for businesses, including increased fines for non-compliance and the reporting of serious privacy breaches. However, the changes and impact may be less than organizations fear because the... Read more

17 December 2020

17 December 2020

What is Amazon Redshift?

Are you interested in cloud-data warehouses? This is a comprehensive introduction to one of the most popular ones: Amazon Redshift. Read more

Jonathan Roberts

17 December 2020

Jonathan Roberts

17 December 2020

Redgate embraces open source with its ongoing development of Flyway

18 months ago, Redgate embarked on a new and ambitious journey with the acquisition of Flyway. It’s been quite a ride since then and we thought we’d end 2020 with an update on what’s been happening with the world’s most popular open source migrations framework for database deployments. We’ve learned a lot, and I... Read more

17 December 2020

17 December 2020

Performance tuning with SQL Monitor: tempdb usage, parameter sniffing, and blocking chains

Looking to level up your performance tuning game? Check out three new videos on tempdb, unstable query plans, and identifying blocking chains with SQL Monitor. Read more

Jonathan Roberts

16 December 2020

Jonathan Roberts

16 December 2020

What’s next for Flyway

18 months ago, Flyway was acquired by Redgate. It’s been quite a ride since then and we thought we’d end 2020 with an update on what’s been happening with the world’s most popular open source migrations framework for database deployments. We’ve learned a lot, and I wanted to share that with you in this... Read more

Redgate Data Modeler

15 December 2020

Redgate Data Modeler

15 December 2020

Explaining an ER Diagram, With Steps and Use Cases

An entity-relationship diagram, also known as an ER Diagram, is a visual blueprint of a data model based on entities, attributes, and relationships. Read more

Gareth Bragg

15 December 2020

Gareth Bragg

15 December 2020

The path beyond skills maps

We’ve already shared our reflections on seven years with skills maps, and our realization that we needed something more. We wanted something that could: Help people to develop within their current role Show different directions they could take their careers Set consistent expectations across people within roles Be relevant and detailed without needing regular... Read more

skills map

Progression framework

Grant Fritchey

14 December 2020

Grant Fritchey

14 December 2020

Challenges to Database DevOps: How Do You Maintain Master Data?

When it comes to deploying databases, one of many challenges that arises is dealing with your master data, lookup data, or sometimes even reference data. It’s those tables that store the lists of choices like a Suffix to a name such as Dr., or Ms. Or something else. In fact, during a recent panel... Read more

Database DevOps

challenges to database devops

master data

Gareth Bragg

14 December 2020

Gareth Bragg

14 December 2020

Reflecting on seven years of skills maps

Back in 2013, Redgate shared our internal skills maps with the world. It remains one of the most visited posts on our blog. But where did we go from there? Navigating skills maps When Redgate introduced skills maps, they were a huge success. They were rapidly adopted by almost every role in the company... Read more

skills maps

Redgate Data Modeler

10 December 2020

Redgate Data Modeler

10 December 2020