As a DevOps Advocate at Redgate, I frequently work with Enterprise customers to help them transform their software development process for databases across their entire organization. I don’t do this work alone: Redgate’s development teams have a strong customer focus. Engineers working on our DevOps solutions frequently join the Sales teams and the Advocate... Read more
Teams implementing DevOps often encounter a significant obstacle: database folks are not all used to working with Version Control Systems (VCS). It’s important to overcome this obstacle because a VCS such as Git offers significant benefits for collaboration between database administrators and developers. Git provides: A platform for early review of code changes by... Read more
I’m excited to give you a run down of fresh new online training, open to all on Redgate University. We’ve got a great mix of courses on how to up your game with SQL Server for both database administrators and developers, as well as sessions on how to use Redgate solutions to up your... Read more
When deploying new versions of a centralized application like a web service, there’s a strategy you can use to direct production traffic to the new version only after it has been successfully deployed and optionally tested. This strategy goes by the name blue/green or red/black, with each color representing a copy of the target... Read more
Updated July 2020 More and more enterprises are seeing the merit of introducing DevOps to speed up application and database development and deliver value into hands of their customers faster. The collaboration and cooperation it encourages typically reduces errors, cuts down delays and removes the pain from deployments. That’s the good news. The downside... Read more
This week I attended the Virtual DevOps Enterprise Summit. As a sponsor, Redgate held a virtual Happy Hour event in which we chatted with a great group of folks about implementing DevOps within an Enterprise. The conference had great content, but the Happy Hour was one of my favorite bits of the event. One... Read more
In light of the current pandemic, IT conferences and events across the world are being cancelled, postponed – or moved to the virtual space. At Redgate, we’ve been doing the same with a series of free online webinars, livestreams and training courses. But at 8am Australian Eastern Standard Time on Thursday, July 2, we’re... Read more
Flyway 6.5.0 is out! This release contains new features and improvements over Flyway 6.4.0. Highlights You can find a detailed list of the changes in the release notes. Toggle schema creation By default, Flyway will attempt to create the schemas provided by the schemas and defaultSchema configuration options. This behavior can be toggled with the createSchemas configuration option. This might be useful... Read more
While individual buzzwords will come in and out of fashion, the ideas at the heart of DevOps aren’t going anywhere. In this post, I give my take on three initiatives you should invest in today to transform your database development and operations practices. These initiatives will pay off over time, no matter what changes... Read more
At a Redgate Summit in May, I gave a 20-minute presentation on the challenges of working from home. I presented on the topic, because, unlike many people, I’ve been working remotely my entire time at Redgate. That’s almost 10 years of remote work. So I’ve managed to screw up quite a few things and... Read more
