Using Data Scanning to Identify and Classify Sensitive Columns
SQL Data Catalog's new data scanning feature uses regular expressions and data dictionaries to identify where sensitive and personal data is stored in your databases.
2021-08-04
Vendors/3rd-party Products
Overcoming Database DevOps challenges - Part 1
When integrating database changes into a DevOps process, the biggest challenge is to standardize and coordinate the different approaches to application and database development. Discover the key tools & training resources to help you and your team.
2021-08-02
Share your favorite Redgate tool – win technical training from Pluralsight!
Level up your skills with Redgate’s latest competition. Redgate is giving you the chance to win a 3-month subscription to Pluralsight, the technical skills platform. To enter, visit the Redgate Forums and answer the question ‘What’s your favorite Redgate tool and why?’
2021-07-30
How Does Microservices Architecture Change Database Deployment?
Grant Fritchey discusses the relationship between microservices architecture and database deployment and how these two important pieces of the DevOps puzzle, can work together, or against each other in the future.
2021-07-28
How to Compare Two SQL Prompt Styles
A PowerShell function that will compare two SQL formatting styles, saved in JSON, and produce a report showing the differences between the options they use to lay out your SQL code.
2021-07-26
Peering into and Parsing Application Log Files
How to use PowerShell cmdlets, such as Select-String, to glance at the contents of the application logs, or use them in conjunction with Regular Expressions to sift through log files in detail looking for particular types of error.
2021-07-23
Fine-tuning Scripted Database Comparisons with SQL Compare
When comparing databases, save your standard options and filters to a single project file, and then use PowerShell to script them out to the command line. This allows you to reuse the same project file across multiple comparison operations.
2021-07-21
What is Redgate Deploy?
How Redgate Deploy will help you ensure that databases and applications can grow and develop in step, and to implement a workflow for delivery of database changes that is resilient, repeatable, fast and visible.
2021-07-19
A Quick Diff Checker for SQL Server Databases
Compare the schemas of two SQL Server databases using SQL Compare command line then quickly produce a diff report showing you immediately which tables, views and functions have changed.
2021-07-16
Mergers and acquisitions in Insurance
The insurance sector has seen a marked rise in mergers and acquisitions over the past 12 months, and although these can be an excellent way to leap beyond organic growth, M&As can result in challenges with technology. In this blog, COEO's James Boother provides some tips on how, with good planning, technologies can be a real advantage in your next acquisition.
2021-07-14
Blogs
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