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Our guest host, and the fountain of knowledge that is, Grant Fritchey, gets into the spirit early enjoying a Beer Can with Chris. Going head-to-head in the ultimate DBAle showdown, Grant pits Chris v Chris as they battle it out to correctly guess insights from the brand new 2021 State of Database DevOps Report.

Is it a beer, is it a muffin or is it a Panda Pop? Who knows but at 9% strength, producer Louise joins our Chris duo as plan B, to monitor proceedings. Very fitting as our discussion focuses on monitoring for the modern data age. We talk busyness, hybrid estates, tooling, Multi-RDBMS, and a surprising amount about car mechanics. In The News we debate scrape or breach, and the potential maximum fines for the latest Facebook scandal. So, grab yourself a beer and tune in – cheers.

Scott Sauber, Director of Engineering at Lean TECHniques Inc., covers the challenges and benefits of source controlling database changes, including a demo of Flyway.

Keeping classifications up to date across a constantly evolving structured data landscape is a difficult task, however it can become part of your DevOps process instead of simply offering further red tape to your development teams. Join Chris Unwin, a solution engineer at Redgate Software, to see how you can include SQL Data Catalog within your upstream DevOps process so that nothing in your Production environments is ever without classification.

How do you ensure best coding practices are being adopted and reinforce this approach in your entire pipeline? In this video we show you how the same best practices are unified in the Code Analysis functionality offered by SQL Prompt, SQL Change Automation and SQL Monitor to ensure your team are making the best possible changes.

Data Masker for SQL Server is an incredibly powerful solution for de-identifying any sensitive PII that exists within your SQL Server Databases, but with great power, comes great configuration & customizability (and responsibility, of course). Join Chris, a Redgate Solution Engineer as they walk you through some of the common issues people can face when running masking sets, and how to easily start troubleshooting any failed runs yourself.

We are frequently asked about how to incorporate Test Driven Development Practices to current deployment processes. On this video I'll guide you on a step-by-step journey of how to create a new test project and align it with your existing SQL Change Automation database code pipeline.