Richard Macaskill

Richard is a Product Manager at Redgate, having previously spent almost 20 years in IT management, database administration and development for Insurance and Financial Services firms in London, back-filling other roles along the way. He spends much of his time boring anyone in earshot about the DevOps and automation implications of financial compliance and audit.

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Richard Macaskill 29 June 2018

Is this a ‘new dawn’ for the data catalog?

Blogs

How should you store the information you need to understand the information in your relational databases? Or rather, how should you store the information your new developers need, that your compliance team requires, that your business wants? With extended properties, Microsoft gave us a mechanism in SQL Server to add metadata to database objects. Extended … Read more

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Richard Macaskill 21 June 2016

Clone, Sweet Clone: Database Provisioning Made Easy?

Tools

One of the difficulties of designing a completely different type of development tool such as SQL Clone is that you have to explain what it is for, but when its use is open-ended it can be exciting to see the novel uses that come out of the early-access program.… Read more

Tools