I recently sat down with Enterprise Architect, Anthony Nocentino, to talk about how effective monitoring can help resolve many of the issues companies face every day. I was fascinated because my career revolves around how we can improve SQL Server monitoring. Anthony’s involves actually doing it at the coalface. He’s made a name for himself Read more
“Understanding the existing product consumes roughly 30 percent of the total maintenance time.” Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering by Robert L. Glass. You should be documenting your database schema. I know it, you know it. Having current, accurate documentation available accelerates time-to-resolution for faults, aids tech-to-business conversations, and is a regulatory requirement for a great number of firms. Read more
For the SQL Change Automation team, it’s important that we take time out from development, occasionally, to explore some of the issues our customers face when automating database deployment. Following on from previous posts about cross-database and cross-server dependencies, this article shares some of our thoughts about how to deal with production database drift. If you’re Read more
The SQL Change Automation team here at Redgate occasionally take time out from development to explore some of the issues our customers face when automating deployment of database changes. As part of one such exercise, we took a closer look at cross-database and cross-server dependencies – these can cause problems when deploying databases to multiple environments Read more
DLM Dashboard tracks changes to your database schemas across different environments. In this blog post, we’ll talk about organizing your databases into pipelines, and how this can help you to better understand your workflow. How was it organized before? Grouping databases by category In the first version of DLM Dashboard, databases were grouped by category Read more
How to use a combination of database roles, along with rules, filters and post deployment scripts in SQL Source Control, to add the required users to the correct role, for each database. Read more
Setting the scene In my last post, I explained how it’s possible to integrate DLM Dashboard with just about every service you use at work. Now that’s all very good in principal, but how do you actually go about configuring DLM Dashboard to trigger an automated task in another app or service? In this post, Read more
From a business risk perspective, data change can be just as significant as code or schema change. Sometimes even more so; an incorrect static (or reference, or master) data change can drive your software’s behaviour more dangerously askew than pretty much any bug can. Imagine treating a retail customer for an investment fund as a corporate by Read more
I’ve been experimenting with Extended Properties, and I found myself slightly annoyed by the syntax of adding and updating Extended Properties. I decided to take advantage of SQL Prompt to store the commonly used code for adding and updating properties. Adding Properties I’m a big fan of naming the snippets the first thing that comes to mind. Read more
Where developers have their own databases, you need to ensure the user accounts are configured identically across all development and test server, or you'll inevitably hear the phrase “…but it works on my machine”. Alex Yates describes, strategically, how this might work. Read more
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