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The Complexity Myth in Test Data Management

Feb 27, 2026 By James Hemson In Redgate
This is a guest post from James Hemson. For years, the test data management market has told smaller companies the same story. Test data is complex. You need consultants. Compliance is expensive. Expect a six-month implementation before you see any value. At Redgate we think that's wrong. And we think it's wrong by design. Complexity creates services revenue. It creates switching costs. Most vendors have built their businesses around this.
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Smarter Custom Metrics for Redgate Monitor: Additional Alert Text Query

Feb 26, 2026 By Nick Coombe In Redgate
This is a guest post from Nick Coombe. Redgate Monitor's built-in metrics cover the most common database pressure points out of the box. However, every estate has a few KPIs and metrics that are specific to the business, and users can create custom metrics to track those signals and receive an alert when they cross a threshold.
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The benefits of leadership coaching in the tech industry - with Cindy Gross

Feb 26, 2026 By Redgate Software In Redgate
Steve is joined by Cindy Gross to discuss leadership coaching in the technology industry – what it is, how it works, and the many benefits it brings. Recorded on-site at PASS Data Community Summit 2025 in Seattle. Cindy is an executive coach and Adaptive Leadership Expert with 25 years in the US tech industry. As a former SQL Server Master (MCM) and expert in cross-organizational navigation at Microsoft, she transformed her focus from complex technical systems to empowering leaders within systemic chaos.
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PostgreSQL Explain Plans in AWS Aurora

Feb 24, 2026 By Grant Fritchey In Redgate
I recently wrote about a project I created on AWS Aurora PostgreSQL where I'm capturing APRS data from a radio. I focused on the ease of use, getting a database, some Lambda Functions, and a few schedulers working together with a web page. It was easy. However, I'd like to focus on a slightly different area now, performance.
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Database Security Failures Don't Start in Security Teams

Feb 18, 2026 By Jeff Foster In Redgate
When a database security incident happens, everyone turns to the security team. We look for a simple root cause analysis, and then we add a control, tighten a policy, and maybe even buy a silver bullet tool. We feel progress! But the incident didn’t start there. It started years earlier, when the organization made a series of perfectly reasonable decisions that quietly expanded the surface area and weakened the consistency of control.
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2026 - Redgate Flyway - Starting strong with Oracle

Feb 18, 2026 By Stephanie Herr In Redgate
Deploying changes to Oracle databases can be complex from working across multiple schemas, handling dependencies, and accounting for environment differences. Flyway has been helping teams bring order and automation to Oracle development for over 15 years and in 2026 we’re accelerating that investment even further. Here’s a look at the latest enhancements available today and what’s coming next for Oracle users.
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Control your dependencies in Flyway Desktop for Oracle and SQL Server Databases

Feb 16, 2026 By Stephanie Herr In Redgate
This is a guest post from Stephanie Herr. One of Flyway’s biggest strengths is its ability to track your database schema as individual SQL DDL scripts on disk. This gives you full version control over every object, along with a complete audit trail of what changed, who changed it, when it changed, and why. For teams working with Oracle and/or SQL Server, this level of transparency is essential and this latest release provides even more support for how you handle changes across dependent objects.
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Redgate Test Data Manager Product Updates - January 2025

Feb 16, 2026 By James Hemson In Redgate
This is a guest post from James Hemson. The January release of Redgate Test Data Manager brings the launch of our free trial, a completely redesigned installation experience, and powerful new workflow capabilities. These updates make it faster to get started and easier to automate your data provisioning pipelines.
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Compliant Test Data Used to Be Hard. It Isn't Anymore.

Feb 16, 2026 By Saskia Parks In Redgate
This is a guest post from Saskia Parks. If you're exploring test data management (TDM) solutions, you probably know your current practices aren't ideal, but you're skeptical investing in a solution is worth the budget and effort. We hear the same concerns. The perception is that proper TDM is expensive, complicated, and takes months of painful implementation.
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Redgate Flyway, Oracle, and the Case of the Lowercase Schema

Feb 13, 2026 By Kellyn Gorman In Redgate
If you’ve spent any time working with Oracle databases, you’ve probably internalized a few expectations so deeply that you don’t even think about them anymore. One of the biggest is this: Database users, tables, views, and metadata are in UPPERCASE. So, when you query the database directly, no matter if using SQL*Plus, SQLcl,SQL Developer, or any other tool, you’re going to format your query in a common way.
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Your Test Data Environment: Build vs Buy - a conversation we need to have

Feb 4, 2026 By Steve Jones In Redgate
After three decades of working with databases, one thing I’ve seen over and over is this: we don’t treat our development and test environments with the same respect we do our production systems. Not because people don’t care. Far from it. It’s usually because teams are under pressure, everyone’s juggling multiple priorities, and the quickest path forward often wins the day.
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Why test data management is becoming increasingly important to senior IT leaders

Feb 1, 2026 By James Phillips In Redgate
We recently sat down with James Phillips, Senior IT Leader, to talk about test data management (TDM) and the growing attention it’s getting from the senior IT leaders. It’s been prompted by the recognition that provisioning test and development environments with realistic production-like data improves the quality of code being developed, reduces errors, and deliver new features to customers faster.
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