At Redgate, we launched the Community Circle back in April as a place our customers and the Data Platform community could visit to find free resources, tips and content to help them learn, develop and keep in touch during this difficult time. It’s apparent that the world we’re now living…Read more
While you can’t catch us in person at the Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit, Microsoft Build or Data Grillen this month, there are still lots of ways you can continue to chat to the Redgate team. Discussions and demos The Redgate virtual booth is open for business, for example. You can…Read more
I’m Kathi Kellenberger. I’m the editor of Simple Talk, a DevOps Advocate, and a Microsoft Data Platform MVP. Probably the most important thing to know about me is that I’m a lifelong learner and a teacher. I love learning new things and I love sharing what I’ve learned with others.…Read more
Earlier this year we published the 2020 State of Database DevOps report, in which the responses from thousands of IT professionals gave us a unique insight into how organizations and individuals are adopting DevOps. It also covers how teams operate, key areas for optimization, and the biggest challenges they currently…Read more
In Flyway 6.4.0 we introduced a new feature, support for wildcards in the locations. With this feature a new set of solutions to organizing your migration files has now become available. In this post we hope to detail some of them, to aid the users of Flyway in deciding the solution that…Read more
While it’s possible to perform SQL rollbacks to revert database changes, the question is, should you? Rolling back a database change isn’t as straightforward as rolling back a code change. Databases are the lifeblood of applications. An unsuccessful rollback can result in bad or deleted data. This article goes through…Read more
Covid-19 has taken a toll on communities across the globe, impacting lives in unprecedented ways. The stresses and strain of course vary depending on your situation, but there’s one thing we know to be true for us all: we’re all in this together. Here at Redgate we want to do…Read more
In my previous article, How to design an automated database deployment process, I wrote about the steps companies and organizations should take to introduce automation to their database deployments. In this article, I’m going talk about the challenges I faced when I embarked on my own automation journey. Prior to…Read more
On March 2, DBTA announced PASS as the winner of its inaugural Database DevOps Innovation Award. Redgate is extremely pleased with the news because we’ve really enjoyed working with PASS, and their team really deserves this recognition for what they’ve achieved since 2018. The journey at PASS to a streamlined…Read more
In Flyway 6.3.0 we introduced a new feature. The ability to use the ${flyway:timestamp} placeholder (See Placeholders for more details). This placeholder will insert the current date in the format yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss as its value. Now, this has some very obvious uses such as storing the date a migration was executed into your database. However, there…Read more