Join us to dive into the key findings of the 2019 State of Database DevOps Report and investigate the growing importance of the database in successful DevOps and IT performance. Now in its third year, nearly 3,000 database professionals have contributed to the State of Database DevOps report. The responses give a clear understanding of the challenges and opportunities of adopting Database DevOps.

You’ll discover a wealth of insights, including:

• The main drivers for automating the delivery of database changes
• The impact Database DevOps has on regulatory and compliance requirements
• How organizations are adopting Database DevOps alongside broader DevOps initiatives – and the advantages it brings
• How real-world champions are helping their organizations and the community realize the benefits of Database DevOps

"That would never work here."

You've likely heard this sentiment (or maybe you've even said it yourself). The good news is change is possible whether you're a small start-up or a large, traditionally slow-moving organisation.

Damian Brady explains how Microsoft's Azure DevOps team (formerly Visual Studio Team Services) went from a three-year waterfall delivery cycle to three-week iterations. How they open-sourced part of the system, and even invented and open-sourced a new Git Virtual File System to enable other teams at Microsoft to move with them.

Your business depends on minimizing the risk to your most valuable asset: your data. By implementing Redgate’s Compliant Database DevOps solution to your Microsoft SQL Server estate, you can protect business-critical data, while also improving the efficiency and quality of software delivery.

In this session you’ll learn:

• The key benefits of extending DevOps practices to the database
• The current state of Database DevOps
• Demo of Redgate’s Compliant Database DevOps solution

A wide range of stakeholders are involved in implementing a DevOps initiative, from IT Directors or Managers to Developers and the C-level, all of whom need to understand the benefits to be gained. Hear from experts who share their experiences of their journey towards database DevOps in their organizations.

Monitoring Azure SQL Database is still a necessary part of understanding how your system is behaving and ensures that you have the information needed to make necessary decisions about your databases in a timely and accurate manner. In this session, Steve will show you the important metrics that you need to track on your Azure SQL Databases, including:

• DTU and vCore utilization
• Resource usage: memory and IO
• Wait stats

According to Gartner, more than 80% of companies use sensitive data in dev and test. Hackers view non-production environments as a tempting target since they often have less rigorous security controls.

In this session, you’ll learn about the challenges that we, as technology professionals, face in our software development and administrative work. Learn compliant DevOps strategies for reducing your attack surface area by ensuring you know where sensitive data is located and avoid copying that data to non-production environments.

You see the value to standardizing and automating your database code and deployment practices, but you need to translate that vision into a practical strategy to effect change in your organization. Where do you begin?

In this session, we’ll draw from our extensive experience in helping Redgate customers move successfully through our onboarding process to transform their teams. You’ll learn what to consider when scoping your DevOps project, how to instigate cultural change to support your new processes, and how to create a game plan for a successful proof of concept which successfully launches your Compliant Database DevOps initiative.