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May 2022

Gaining a competitive edge with database monitoring

I was recently joined by Chris Yates, Senior Vice President, Managing Director of Data and Architecture at Republic Bank for our webinar, Gain the competitive edge with a monitoring tool. The session sparked an insightful conversation around estate monitoring from the perspective of a Senior VP, and I wanted to share some of the key take-aways.

How Database Monitoring Tools Assist in the Auditing Process | Interview with Chris Yates, SVP

Regardless of industry, data is one of the most valuable assets a company has. Every senior leader should be thinking about how to reduce risk, meet audit and compliance requirements and protect their business’ reputation. In this short clip, taken from a longer webinar hosted by Redgate, Chris Yates explains how a database monitoring tool can help meet auditing requirements quickly and easily.

Redgate Software Adopts Policy-Driven Approach to Data Protection with New Data Catalog Release

In a move to help businesses simplify their data management practices by automating policy decisions, the latest release of Redgate Software's SQL Data Catalog now provides a simple, policy-driven approach to data protection.

DevOps 101: How to kick-start your DevOps initiative

This is the third part of my DevOps 101 series, so before we get going, let’s do a quick recap of what we’ve covered previously In DevOps 101: What, who, why, and how, I talked about how the definition from Microsoft’s Donovan Brown encapsulates DevOps succinctly as: The union of people, process, and products, to enable the continuous delivery of value to the end users.

Why Database Monitoring Tools are Important for Senior Business Leaders | Interview with Matt Gordon

Matt Gordon is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and the Director of Data and Infrastructure at Rev.io. In this short video, he talks us through the 3 key reasons database monitoring tools are essential for him as a Director, and how they help him to lead a team successfully and productively.

Why and how you should automate database migrations

The desire to release features faster and deliver value to customers sooner is prompting many IT teams to adopt DevOps and Agile practices. By automating parts of the development process where possible and working in shorter cycles to release small changes more often, those teams that do well experience fewer errors and produce higher quality code. All of which is good news, until it comes to the database.