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Getting Started with Cloud-hosted Databases using Spawn

This article will get you started with Spawn, a hosted database cloning service running entirely on Amazons AWS. Read more

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Running SQL Clone on an Azure VM with Azure File Storage

How to use SQL Clone in the Azure Cloud, installing it on an Azure Virtual Machine, storing a copy of your SQL Server database as an 'image' on an Azure File Share, and then deploying multiple clones to another Azure VM or to a remote machine. Read more

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Solving the Provisioning Problem in Database Development using Clones

When database development is described, the details often get vague when the data gets beyond spreadsheet-size. There is 'hand-waving' talk of providing databases for each developer, but little detail of how you would provision all the databases that would be needed, at the correct version and with the correct development… Read more

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SQL Change Automation: Adding SQL Clone to the Mix

Tony Davis explores how SQL Change Automation is increasingly providing ways of working with SQL Clone, to improve the quality of testing for database changes. With SCA v4.3, developers can now use the SSMS plugin to create a clone of the target database, to be used as a reference database,… Read more

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Getting Started with Automatic Database Branch Switching

Alexander Diab demonstrates how a team of developers can work on and test features in different branches of a SQL Server database development project, while their local development database automatically remains 'synchronized' with the current branch in version control. Read more

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How SQL Clone and SQL Change Automation enable seamless Database Branch Switching

Learn how SQL Clone and SQL Change Automation, used together, now allow you to branch your database in Git as quickly and simply as your code. Read more

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Cloning all the Databases on a Server

Phil Factor shows uses SQL Clone and PowerShell to automatically create images of all databases on an instance, if they don't already exist, and then create or refresh clones of each one, on all your development servers. Read more

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SQL Clone PowerShell Scripting: The Basics

Phil Factor demonstrates some simple examples of how to use SQL Clone's PowerShell library to pass objects between cmdlets, and simplify common tasks, such as creating and deploying clones from various images. He then documents the objects and cmdlets, and illustrates their inputs and outputs. Read more

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Unwrapping, Unboxing and Installing SQL Clone

If you are evaluating a tool such as a text editor or spreadsheet, it is easy: you just install it, you run it, you decide whether you need it. Job done. However, a similar 'unboxing' or 'unwrapping' of SQL Clone, and installing across a network, is not so quick and… Read more

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DevOps Self-Service for Databases with SQL Clone

Phil Factor describes the freedom of being able to "self-serve" databases, during testing and development, and explains how it works with SQL Clone. Read more

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Getting Started with Cloud-hosted Databases using Spawn

Running SQL Clone on an Azure VM with Azure File Storage

Solving the Provisioning Problem in Database Development using Clones

SQL Change Automation: Adding SQL Clone to the Mix

Getting Started with Automatic Database Branch Switching

How SQL Clone and SQL Change Automation enable seamless Database Branch Switching

Cloning all the Databases on a Server

SQL Clone PowerShell Scripting: The Basics

Unwrapping, Unboxing and Installing SQL Clone

DevOps Self-Service for Databases with SQL Clone

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Security and compliance

Database monitoring and observability

Database change management

Productivity and workflow automation

AI data readiness

Database modernization

Efficiency and cost optimization

Cloud migration and workload optimization

Redgate Flyway

Redgate Monitor

SQL Toolbelt Essentials

Redgate Assistant

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