The Change Failure Rate
The number of times that you have a failure when deploying changes is a good metric to watch.
2025-02-17 (first published: 2019-06-03)
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DevOps and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
Enhance your database development by using coding standards
Establishing coding standards can help remove blockers to understanding code, improving quality and reducing maintenance. Faris Hilmi explains how having consistently formatted code plays a larger role in database development and how Redgate tools can best equip you for the task.
2019-05-30
Bringing certainty to the uncertainty of Brexit
These are tough times for businesses in the EU. Is the UK going to be in or out? Quite simply, businesses are finding it difficult to plan anything when everything is up in the air, and no one can confirm what will happen next. All of which is making many businesses wary of making a decision to invest in their IT infrastructure. Enter DevOps.
2019-05-21
Six reasons to version control your database
For application developers it is unthinkable to work without version control. Yet, only 55% of database developers are version controlling their database changes? Mary Robbins provides six reasons why you should version control your database.
2019-05-13
DevOps Is About Communication
I spend a lot of time showing how to use tools to automate database deployments in support of DevOps. However, the one message that I always try to deliver...
2019-05-13
Database Delivery with Docker and SQL Change Automation
Phil Factor demonstrates the basics of how to automate database builds into a Linux SQL Server container running on Windows, and then backup the containerized database and restore it...
2019-05-13
Why DBAs Must Embrace DevOps
A good day for a database administrator (DBA) is a lot like a good airline flight. A lot of excitement in either situation is bad. In a perfect world,...
2019-05-09
A DBA’s Journey towards Database DevOps
John Morehouse describes how a quest to help solve his organization's "deployment bottleneck" led them to a place where they could both deliver application and database changes into the...
2019-05-09
Get Ready for DataOps
An emerging discipline called DataOps is taking a page out of the DevOps playbook. The latter is all about accelerating the time to software delivery, and the former about accelerating data flow. And just as DevOps replaces the waterfall method of software delivery, DataOps replaces the waterfall approach of delivering data to the data consumer.
2019-05-03
What is Automation?
Kendra Little gets a bit closer to a meaningful definition of automation, as it applies to the software development process.
2019-05-02
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