Tag Archives: deployment

How Important is Zero Downtime?

As I work with more and more customers at Redgate, I see some interesting trends. During the pandemic (and prior), we got a lot of questions on zero downtime and how to achieve database DevOps without causing problems. Those are … Continue reading

Posted in Editorial | Tagged , | 1 Comment

Resources for Architecting Zero Downtime Deployments

I delivered my talk on Architecting Zero Downtime Deployments yesterday at VS Live Las Vegas 2023. It went fairly well, even though I ran some incorrect code somewhere. Apologies for that, but glad I could fix things. The code for … Continue reading

Posted in Blog | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off on Resources for Architecting Zero Downtime Deployments

Patterns and Potential Problems

I saw a post recently from a developer that needed to refactor and rename a table in a live system. The post describes a pattern for doing so and gives the steps taken, though not the actual code. I like … Continue reading

Posted in Editorial | Tagged , | Comments Off on Patterns and Potential Problems

How Do You Decide to Rollback?

One of the constant questions I get from Redgate customers is about rolling back database changes. We build software to help you deploy changes, but what about rollbacks? I think I’ve heard this in almost every conversation I’ve had on … Continue reading

Posted in Editorial | Tagged , | Comments Off on How Do You Decide to Rollback?