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Redgate Test Data Manager Product Updates - January 2025

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.

Compliant Test Data Used to Be Hard. It Isn't Anymore.

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.

Redgate Flyway, Oracle, and the Case of the Lowercase Schema

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.

Your Test Data Environment: Build vs Buy - a conversation we need to have

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.

Why test data management is becoming increasingly important to senior IT leaders

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.

Start the year strong: make SQL Server development faster, more reliable, and more consistent

As the new year begins, development teams are looking to build momentum, set clear goals, and establish reliable, scalable processes that will help them deliver value consistently throughout 2026. That’s why many teams are turning to SQL Toolbelt Essentials: a powerful, easy-to-adopt toolkit that helps teams speed up database development, reduce risk, and standardize workflows.

Redgate Flyway 2025 year in review

First, I’d like to say how happy and lucky I feel to be working at Redgate on Flyway. I’m one of two Senior Product Managers in Flyway and we’ve been looking for a third to join us. We work alongside the Flyway Group Leadership Team (Group Product Manager, Architect, Lead Designer, and Development Manager) and four amazing engineering teams with embedded designers. We also work with the Product Support, Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success teams.