Posts Tagged with Compliant database DevOps
Database DevOps has come of age. Now seen as a key technical practice which can contribute to the successful implementation of DevOps, it stops the database being a bottleneck and makes releases faster and easier. Conversely, perhaps, the automation and audit trails it introduces can help to protect personal data within databases and make... Read more
You may think of monitoring as helping you optimize your server performance and ensure availability, particularly in times of technical crisis. But did you know, monitoring helps your teams work together in times of human-based crisis as well. Organizations everywhere are taking action to ensure business continuity and to minimize customer impact, whether employees... Read more
As cases of COVID-19 spread worldwide and concerns mount, organizations everywhere are responding with efforts to maintain the flow of business while keeping employees and their families safe. Development and IT teams everywhere are either validating that their team may effectively work from home or have already moved to a full-time working-from-home policy. Teams... Read more
The world today is suffering from the advent of a new disease, COVID-19. Now, all is not doom and gloom, and there is absolutely no reason for any kind of panicked response. The reasonable voices suggest this may simply become like the flu, or, with a vaccine, be eliminated entirely. However, the situation we’re... Read more
In 2018, the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) was faced with the challenge of putting into place the processes that would enable it to comply with the GDPR as well as upcoming legislation like the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and New York’s SHIELD Act. Each of the regulations affects any organization that... Read more
SQL Provision helps to accelerate the delivery of database changes, by enabling an organization to provide database copies, and the right data, to all parts of the deployment pipeline that need it, with a light footprint, and securely. Tony Davis explains how. Read more
The 2018 Accelerate State of DevOps Report from DORA specifically calls out database development as a key technical practice which can drive high performance in DevOps. It’s an interesting shift in our understanding of what should be included in DevOps workflows because it moves the database from being a bottleneck in the process to... Read more
With the recent regulatory pressures such as GDPR, being able to know what type of data we are holding onto within our business became a bigger challenge. At Redgate, we have been exploring ways to make this easier for our heavy SQL Server users and eliminate the problems around this area by making it... Read more
How to use SQL Data Generator, and PowerShell to obfuscate personal data (names), while retaining the same distribution of data, so that the test database behaves like the original. Read more
DevOps isn’t just a buzz word, it’s a way of life for many in the IT world. For those who have already implemented the culture shift and introduced new practices into their database development processes, they’re reaping the benefits, and seeing their teams deliver value faster, allowing them to stay ahead of the competition.... Read more
