A Contract Solutions Architect for a manufacturing software development company, Tonie Huizer has 20+ years’ experience working with Azure, SQL and other Microsoft technologies. A Microsoft Certified Azure Developer Associate, he has the knowledge to design, build, test, and maintain cloud applications and services on Microsoft Azure.

Last week we had the pleasure of speaking to SQL Authority’s Pinal Dave to show him some of our favorite SQL Monitor features! Pinal has used – and been a fan of – SQL Monitor since it launched in 2008 (fun fact: it was named SQL Response back then). There are, however, some newer features that Pinal isn’t too familiar with, and we were delighted to introduce those to him.

In the first post in this series, I talked about the challenges for the US Government sector when attempting to introduce DevOps. The sector lags behind others such as Financial Services on every measure, yet the technical obstacles like a disruption to workflows and a lack of appropriate skills are the same.

Organizations around the world are turning to DevOps as a way of working together to improve the efficiency and quality of software delivery and increase value to the business. But what exactly is DevOps and what does it mean for you and your organization? Welcome to DevOps 101. Our new monthly webinar series aims to explain exactly this. Each live session will be hosted by me, Grant Fritchey, starting with the fundamentals to expand your knowledge and understanding of DevOps.

Running successful cross-functional projects, when teams are no longer co-located in the same physical space, requires a different approach. Read on to find out how we used this as an opportunity to improve how the Marketing Division at Redgate collaborates with other parts of the business and how you can apply some of our learnings in your own organization.

Over the last five years, Redgate’s annual State of Database DevOps Report has provided valuable insights into how and why DevOps is being adopted, along with the drivers for introducing it for both application and database development, and the obstacles businesses and organizations face.

We recently released a minor version of SQL Monitor, v12.1, that includes Tagging and a new ‘Current Activity’ page. This blog post will outline the latter feature.

Matt Gordon is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and the Director of Data and Infrastructure at Rev.io. The sophisticated billing-as-a-service (BaaS) platform provides online billing software to communications companies, IoT businesses, and technology service providers. Matt’s role, first and foremost, involves keeping the lights on while at the same time overseeing many data-related projects, from architecture to performance tuning and DevOps implementation.

As you start to have responsibility for more than a handful of SQL Server instances, you’ll need to get more organised. Everyone around you benefits if you’ve recorded basic things like what the server does and who is responsible for it, and we think that a great place to do this is in your monitoring tool (and, better still, if that’s SQL Monitor!).

I’m inordinately proud to work for Redgate Software. One of the biggest reasons for my pride is because I can say, without equivocation, we make fantastic software that will help you do your job better, easier, and faster. However, there was one piece of software, many years ago now, that I wasn’t so proud of. Let me put it this way: I tried to get rid of SQL Monitor.