Multiple Deployment Processes
Many organizations haven't standardized the way they deploy code to databases, even when they do so for applications. Steve has a few thoughts on this today.
2026-03-13
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Deployment Process
Rollback vs. Roll Forward
Today Steve talks about deployments and whether you should roll forward or roll back.
2026-03-04
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You Always Have a Software Pipeline
If you build software for customers, you have a pipeline. It might not be good, but you have one. Steve recommends you work to make sure this is a repeatable, reliable pipeline.
2023-10-13
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How do you develop and deploy your database?
Could you spare 3 minutes to do us a quick favor? Redgate’s running this short survey on how our readers develop and deploy databases. It’s just 12 multiple choice questions, so if you’ve got a couple of minutes to spare, we’d love to hear from you.
2015-02-26 (first published: 2015-02-05)
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Fast Project Rollbacks
When a project is completed, one of the next steps is to roll this project out to the production environment. However a good rollback process is important to ensure that you can remove those changes if there are problems. Longtime author David Poole talks about how he handles this.
2008-10-22
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Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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