Whether you’re exploring the advantages of DevOps or already fully immersed in the journey, including the database brings additional advantages. But how are you performing compared to the competition? What could you do better? What’s the benchmark you should be aiming for? To help companies answer these questions, Redgate has created a Database DevOps... Read more
Using a mobile app to hire builders, landscapers, and other skilled professionals makes taking care of property less of a hassle. In this article, we look at a data model to support such an app. Read more
Pet care is a huge industry. Is there a data model that can help pet owners and professionals manage their activities? There is now! Read more
PASS Summit lands in Seattle from October 31 to November 3 this year, bringing with it the latest thinking and developments in the SQL Server world. Redgate is a Gold sponsor and we’ll be there, talking about database DevOps and other topics. Look out in particular for: How DevOps for the database helps with compliance... Read more
I have a lot of experience working in financial services and I’ve recently been talking to Database Administrators (DBAs) who work in the sector. Unsurprisingly, perhaps, deploying database changes is the most taxing part of their job. They’re often required to review thousands of lines of script and it can take days, depending on... Read more
In order to optimize the value of any website, information about the number of site visitors and their user behaviors is needed. There are a few tools which, with just a few minor changes to your site, will actually do this work for you, the most popular such tool is Google Analytics. While this... Read more
SQL Server 2017 officially landed today and is now on general release. The latest version of the heavyweight platform is more than the sum of its parts, however, because it doesn’t just deliver new functionality. Alongside the list of extra features, it also changes two important ways we think about the platform itself. Time... Read more
DevOps is gaining ground everywhere. By offering a route to releasing software faster, with fewer errors, it can give companies which adopt it an immediate advantage. Unfortunately, it’s not something you can just buy or decide to do tomorrow. Instead, it’s a shift that needs the right guidance to become reality. But while there... Read more
Most of us are familiar with the apartment rental process. But what does it take to run a leasing office? In this article, we look at a data model designed to do just that. Read more
When SQL Server 2017 launched, Microsoft proudly announced that it was the first relational database engine to ship with built-in artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. In the future, database servers running its software won’t just be able to store, query, and analyse data. Instead, they’ll also be able to perform machine learning, natural language, and neural... Read more
