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2019-09-27
Steve thinks having a known set of data for your system is one way to improve your software development process and make salespeople happy.
2019-08-14
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In this independent review of SQL Provision, the Bloor analyst finds that SQL Provision’s combination of database cloning and data masking stands out with “clear advantages over competing approaches, such as data subsetting or synthetic data generation.”
2019-06-06 (first published: 2019-05-23)
Discover the latest market trends and assess your approach to test data management. For example, the Bloor analyst recognizes “…an increased emphasis on test data provisioning, as opposed to merely test data management.” The report also covers key capabilities offered by vendors in the market, including Redgate.
2019-05-30 (first published: 2019-05-16)
Constructing a test environment for your databases can be a difficult task at the best of times. Once you’ve actually acquired the hardware needed and architected the environment, you still have to arrange and securely transport the data. And with the rising demand for fast feedback and continuously integrated processes, having all of this automated and operating at speed is a challenge all of its own.
2015-02-16
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Part two of this fantastic series from Jeff Moden looks at generating date data, something which can be handy for any number of testing purposes.
2012-04-25
8,157 reads
As a database developer or tester sometimes you need to have production like data in your environment for your development or testing, but you cannot have the production data because of security and privacy issues. So how you can generate test data or replicate similar data as in production for your development or test environment?
2010-12-31
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Rumor has it that Concatenation functions have gotten the nasty reputation of being "performance hogs". Here's why that's not true.
2008-01-01
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On May 8, 2025, we hosted our first official event in Switzerland at Prime...
By Steve Jones
Tomorrow is the Redgate DevOps Day in Atlanta. You can still sign up, so...
By Kevin3NF
Too many IT teams run index rebuild jobs on autopilot. Every night. Every index....
I have a record, in those the three columns where firstname / last name...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Execution Plan Operators
--for a given member if the startdate and endate is continous we need to...
When looking at an execution plan in SSMS, what types of operators are shown?
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