Category: Blog

  • Continuously Classify and Protect Your Senstive Data

    Abstract:

    Many data breaches come about from less secured development and test databases. Redgate has integrated SQL Data Catalog and Data Masker to allow you to continuously improve your classification and protection process for those environments. In this session Steve Jones will show how this process can be refined over time and distributed across a team of individuals in your organization.

    Length: 60-75 minutes

    Slides: ContinuousClassify.pptx

  • The Future of Database Development

    Abstract:

    Containers are dramatically changing the way that application developers design and build their systems. Databases will need to be a part of this revolution as every application needs a data store. Come see a future vision of how full stack application development might look in the next few years.

    Length: 40 minutes

    Slides: FutureDatabaseDev.pptx

  • Continuous Integration with Local Agents and Azure DevOps

    Abstract:

    One of the fundamental tools for modern DevOps software development is continuous Integration (CI). This process provides an automated independent validation and verification of your code, with quick feedback for developers that are under pressure to write higher quality software at a rapid pace. This session examines how Azure DevOps or TFS can be used to manage this process and run a database CI process inside of your data center, on your own instances.

    We will explain CI and Azure DevOps as an orchestrator and see a live DevOps flow of the process running on local instances, but controlled from the cloud. Learn how this can start improving your database development teamwork immediately.

    Goals:

    • Understand continuous integration (CI)
    • Learn how Azure DevOps can run inside your local data center
    • See how a database build process can work with your code changes

    Length: 60 minutes

    Slides: AzureDevOps_LocalHostedAgents.pptx

  • Daily Coping 8 Feb 2021

    I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each day here. All my coping tips are under this tag. 

    Today’s tip is to ask a friend how they have been feeling lately.

    The last couple weeks have been crazy, both at work and in my personal life. I’ve heard from quite a few people about the events at Redgate. It’s been hectic and overwhelming at times.

    However, I also know there are some people that I haven’t contacted in some time. I know a friend had a rough Q4 last year, and I hadn’t heard from them, so I decided to reach out and just wish them well. This turned into a short, but nice conversation about how we each were coping with current things.

    Worth the effort on my part.