How Redgate use SQL Clone internally to provision databases

An Interview with the Redgate IT Manager to discover how SQL Provision is being used to implement a new database provisioning process. Read more

The SQL Prompt Functionality Finder

You have SQL Prompt, but are you aware of all the things it can do and how to get it to do it? Phil Factor provides a handy table to make it obvious. Read more

Unearthing Bad Deployments with SQL Monitor and Redgate’s Database DevOps Tools

Sudden performance issues in SQL Server can have many causes, ranging all the way from malfunctioning hardware, through to simple misconfiguration, or perhaps just end users doing things they shouldn't. But one particularly common culprit is when deployments go wrong: I don't know a single DBA who hasn't been burned by a bad release. Read more

Bringing DevOps to the database – Moody’s Analytics and SQL Clone

Moody's Analytics had a constant need to provision database copies, particularly for the Test Engineers who needed to run multiple daily database integration and acceptance tests. SQL Clone reduced the time taken to deploy a database copy to minutes, instead of hours. Read more

Protecting production data in non-production environments

Grant Fritchey discusses the need to ‘shift left’ the database and associated database testing, while keeping sensitive data secure when it is outside the production environment, and how SQL Provision can help you achieve this. Read more

Why is my clone so small?

How is it possible that the cloned databases could be so small and lightweight, and yet behave exactly like any normal database, complete with all the data? It sounds like magic, but it's not. It simply makes clever use of native Windows virtualization technology. Read more

SQL Clone: the aspirin for your database provisioning headaches

For teams who use a shared development database out of necessity rather than choice, SQL Clone might make the dedicated model viable for the first time. Read more

Team-based database development with SQL Clone

For most development teams, the database provisioning process involves some element of compromise. Either the process is slow, but the database is realistic or the process is fast but the database unrealistic. Chris Hurley explains why SQL Clone can allow the team to develop and test with a real database, without the compromises. Read more

Source controlling database users

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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