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The rising need for database monitoring in Financial Services

Every IT and data team in Financial Services is already faced with many challenges. They manage large database estates with Personally Identifiable Information (PII) that is particularly sensitive, requiring governance and process protection. They have to constantly adapt to changing customer expectations with better products, more seamless experiences, and five-nines availability. They’re expected to deliver new features and services quickly, while keeping data safe.

How to convince your boss you need a Test Data Management solution

If you’re a developer, you may well be familiar with the scenario. You’re writing code and you want to test your changes against a copy of the production database. One that’s representative of the size and distribution characteristics and retains referential integrity so that, when your changes are released, they won’t result in a failed deployment that will take hours to resolve. But there’s a problem. The database copy you’re working with isn’t up to the job.

The wait is over, Flyway community: Git integration is here for everyone!

After a successful rollout for Flyway Teams and Flyway Enterprise, we are pleased to announce Git integration has been extended to Flyway Community users for Flyway Desktop. Today, Flyway Community users can enjoy seamless version control for their databases, integrated with popular Git systems like Azure DevOps Git, AWS CodeCommit, GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket – to name a few.

Introducing Flyway Pipelines - your new window into the health and history of your database deployments

We’re excited to share Flyway Pipelines with you, a new service available in preview for all Flyway users of our Community, Teams and Enterprise editions to view the health and history of their database changes through a single pane of glass. Over recent years, one of the biggest challenges Flyway users have shared with us is how to gain easy visibility of all the database changes that teams are developing and deploying with Flyway.

The risks - and rewards - of using production data for testing

Data, and the way enterprises use data in areas like development and testing, has not traditionally been a focus for business leaders but that’s now changing. Data is more varied and complicated than ever before, for example, with enterprises using two or more different database platforms – and 40% using four or more. It’s also spread wider and further, with enterprises hosting their databases in a combination of cloud and on-premises infrastructures.

10 tips for Test Data Management success

The role of effective Test Data Management (TDM) is often underestimated in the software development process, yet it is a cornerstone for ensuring quality, compliance, and efficiency throughout the software development life cycle. As Bloor say in their Test Data Management Market Update 2024, “… many enterprises are, to quote one vendor we spoke to, “still in the stone age” when it comes to TDM.

Marking deployments in Redgate Monitor 14

Redgate Monitor is an essential tool for DBA teams worldwide, providing real-time monitoring of SQL Server and PostgreSQL performance. With RedgateMonitor, you can easily track deployments, errors, and other events on the timeline. This feature, called annotations, allows you to quickly identify the root cause of performance issues and take corrective action. Redgate Monitor’s timeline is a powerful tool that helps you stay on top of your database performance and keep your systems running smoothly.

How the Financial Services sector is moving to the cloud, and what it means for monitoring

Redgate recently published the 2024 State of the Database Landscape report, which explores how the challenges for data professionals now encompass a lot more than managing and monitoring their database estates for high availability and optimum performance. Database DevOps, multiple database platforms, the cloud, AI, and making data available for development and testing have now also become part of the daily conversation.

What's new in Flyway? State-based deployments in Flyway Teams

Historically, Flyway has been a migrations-based database deployment tool. It greatly improves database deployments by tracking what migration scripts have been executed against a target database and applying any pending migration scripts. Since Redgate acquired Flyway in 2019, we’ve been incorporating Redgate’s database comparison technology into the paid editions (Flyway Teams/Enterprise) so that users can benefit from the best of both worlds.