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14 May 2026

81% of Finance organizations hit by audits in 12 Months as hybrid database complexity reaches a breaking point

This week, database software company Redgate published State of the Database Landscape: Finance Edition, an extension of the 2026 State of the Database Landscape survey of 2,150 IT professionals globally, revealing that 81% of Finance organizations have been hit by audits in the past 12 months. Read more

22 October 2025

22 October 2025

Progress Without Control in the Age of AI and Compliance

There’s growing unease in the database world regarding delivering at speed, raising the question – just how do we keep up with the pace of change without losing control of the things that matter most? AI is rapidly transforming the mechanics of how code is written, reviewed, and optimized which… Read more

audit and compliance

security and compliance

Grant Fritchey

23 October 2018

Grant Fritchey

23 October 2018

A Basic Technique for Masking Address Data using Data Masker

Grant Fritchey provides a simple way to create fake address information that still looks real. The compromise is that it uses random data distributions and doesn't maintain any correlation between postal codes, states and cities, so won’t accurately reflect the real address data. Read more

audit and compliance

Phil Factor

18 October 2018

Phil Factor

18 October 2018

Monitoring Changes in Permissions, Users, Roles and Logins

Phil Factor uses the default trace and a Redgate Monitor custom metric to alert you to unauthorized changes in security membership or permissions in any of your monitored databases. Read more

audit and compliance

database intrusion detection

sql server monitoring

Phil Factor

5 October 2018

Phil Factor

5 October 2018

Checking for Database Drift using Extended Events and Redgate Monitor

Phil Factor uses Extended Events and a Redgate Monitor custom metric to detect when the metadata of a database has 'drifted', meaning that a database object has been created, deleted or modified outside of the official change management process. Read more

audit and compliance

database drift

database intrusion detection

Phil Factor

30 September 2018

Phil Factor

30 September 2018

Spotting Unauthorized Configuration Settings in SQL Server

If someone makes unauthorized changes to SQL Server configuration settings, it could compromise the availability, performance or security of your servers. Using using Extended Events, and a custom metric, in Redgate Monitor, Phil Factor offers a way to get an immediate notification of such changes, and investigate their cause. Read more

audit and compliance

database intrusion detection

Redgate Monitor

Alasdair Daw and Ally Parker

24 May 2017

Alasdair Daw and Ally Parker

24 May 2017

We’re making SQL Server audits easier – can you help us?

On the Foundry team, we’ve just completed the second stage of our research into problems in the SQL Server audit and compliance space. Thank you to everyone who helped us by participating in our initial research (you can read more about it here). Now we’re starting work on a solution that will… Read more

audit and compliance

Foundry

Jonathan Roberts and Alasdair Daw

29 March 2017

Jonathan Roberts and Alasdair Daw

29 March 2017

Dealing with regulation; audit and compliance in SQL Server

In Foundry – Redgate’s research division – we’re focused on exploring new products and technologies for the Microsoft data platform. Over the last few months, we’ve been taking a close look at the problems people face when auditing and meeting regulatory compliance for SQL Server. An introduction to compliance and SQL Server… Read more

audit and compliance

Foundry

Security and compliance

Database monitoring and observability

Database change management

Productivity and workflow automation

AI data readiness

Database modernization

Efficiency and cost optimization

Cloud migration and workload optimization

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Posts tagged with audit and compliance

81% of Finance organizations hit by audits in 12 Months as hybrid database complexity reaches a breaking point

Progress Without Control in the Age of AI and Compliance

A Basic Technique for Masking Address Data using Data Masker

Monitoring Changes in Permissions, Users, Roles and Logins

Checking for Database Drift using Extended Events and Redgate Monitor

Spotting Unauthorized Configuration Settings in SQL Server

We’re making SQL Server audits easier – can you help us?

Dealing with regulation; audit and compliance in SQL Server

2026 State of the Database Landscape

Introduction to PostgreSQL for the data professional

Security and compliance

Database monitoring and observability

Database change management

Productivity and workflow automation

AI data readiness

Database modernization

Efficiency and cost optimization

Cloud migration and workload optimization

Redgate Flyway

Redgate Monitor

SQL Toolbelt Essentials

Redgate Test Data Manager

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