Running Database Tasks and Tests on Clones in Redgate Test Data Manager

This article demonstrates how to adapt your current database development and testing regimes to use clones (data containers) in Redgate Test Data Manager. It demonstrates how to handle dynamic connection details and how to get from the containers the connection and database information that your development tasks and tests need to function correctly. Read more

Simpler Enterprise Test Data Management using Database Instance Provisioning

Business applications are rarely self-contained, often depending on multiple interconnected databases, each playing a vital role in the functioning of the system. How can we create, refresh, and maintain test data for these complex database systems, and still support dedicated databases and test-driven development processes? This article explains how database instance provisioning helps meet this challenge. Read more

Data Masking in Principle

This is the first of two articles to describe the principles and practicalities of masking data in databases. It explains why an organization sometimes needs masked data, the various forms of masked data we can use, the sort of data that needs to be masked, and the potential pitfalls. Read more

Data Masking in Practice

This article takes a strategic look at common data masking and anonymization techniques, and the challenges inherent in protecting certain types of sensitive and personal data, while ensuring that it still looks like the real data, and retains its referential integrity, and distribution characteristics. It also explains, briefly, with references, the tools that one can use to mask different types of data and how to provision development and test machines with these 'de-sensitized' databases, or alternatively to produce fake data that looks like the real thing, but in fact is generated randomly. Read more

Provisioning Clones for Flyway Projects

This article demonstrates how to use Redgate Test Data Manager to automate the delivery and teardown of data containers (clones) on four different RDBMS platforms, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle and MySQL, for use in Flyway development projects. Read more

Getting Started with Cloning in Redgate Test Data Manager

This article takes a 'first look' at database cloning in Redgate Test Data Manager, explaining what it does and its advantages in team-based, test-driven database development. It will get you set up with the cloning CLI and then demos the basics of defining and creating images, and then creating and destroying database containers (clones) using PowerShell. Read more

Redgate Test Data Manager: A Guide for the DevOps Manager

Redgate Test Data Manager will prepare, manage and deliver the test data required to support the full range of development and test activities for any database project. It allows for extensive and automated testing that leads to reliable, online deployment of database changes. Read more

Better Database Development: The Role of Test Data Management

Any organization that aims for reliable, online deployment of database changes needs a Test Data Management (TDM) strategy that allows developers to test the database early, thoroughly, and repeatedly, with the right test data. The benefits include more resilient database deployments, fewer bugs, and shorter lead time for changes. Read more

How to Improve the Quality of Database Releases using Clones

This article explains how we can use the ephemeral, containerized databases delivered by Redgate Clone to increase database code quality and therefore the stability, reliability, and performance of the databases we release. Read more

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