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  |  By Fiona Black
The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) has applied to financial organizations across the EU since January 2025 and is designed to strengthen their ability to withstand operational disruption. What the roundtables revealed was that although these financial organizations had completed extensive DORA planning exercises, this groundwork was not reliably translating into auditable operational control.
  |  By Ryan Gee
AI coding assistants have changed how fast application code gets written. Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, and agentic tools built on top of them can generate a working feature in minutes. But none of them know your database's history. They don't know that a migration already renamed that column last sprint, that a policy forbids unqualified DELETE statements, or that the target environment has drifted from what your migrations say it should look like.
  |  By Ben Emmett
This month, we wanted to spotlight some of the new cloud features that shipped last month and are enabling teams to keep pace with database estates that increasingly span multiple platforms and providers. We also have updates for Monitor Enterprise users that improve alerting for permission changes. Here's what's new in Monitor.
  |  By Maxime Drobot
This month is a big one! We announced the latest major release of Redgate Flyway Enterprise, built to help teams move fast with AI without losing control of the database. Three key new capabilities also landed in preview: Flyway’s MCP server, advanced support for Databricks, and Oracle schema existence checks. And we're closing with a short, honest read on failure and what it takes to make deployments less stressful. Here's the round-up.
  |  By Kellyn Gorman
With a robust background in cloud technology and a passion for promoting its merits and potential, I am thrilled to spearhead conversations and actions that help shape the future of this industry. Kellyn has authored numerous technical books, white papers and solution repositories in GitHub on database, AI and engineering topics.
  |  By Sarah Lahiff
The numbers from the 2026 State of the Database Landscape: AI Edition are striking. 99% percent of respondents using AI report at least one measurable benefit for their database work. Automation is up, performance is improving, and three-quarters report significant cost savings. By almost any measure, AI is delivering. However, sitting alongside that near-universal positivity in the same dataset, security and privacy concerns have climbed to 64%. Regulatory compliance anxiety has risen to 40%.
  |  By Ben Emmett
This set of Redgate Monitor updates brings new AI-powered tooling into how teams work with their estate, alongside expanded coverage for Google Cloud SQL and Contained Availability Groups. Whether you're looking to get faster, insightful answers, plug Monitor into your own AI stack, extend monitoring to a new cloud platform, or keep job visibility intact through a failover, there's something here for you.
  |  By Rob Richardson
“Deployment stress doesn’t just come from high-profile public outages. It often starts much earlier, when a fear of failure seeps into team culture.” Rob Richardson, Software Craftsman Rob certainly knows the stress and embarrassment of public deployment failures. "But overall" he reflects, "I’ve had more stress in my career from internal failures.
  |  By Maxime Drobot
This month brings a batch of practical Flyway Desktop and GitHub Actions improvements, a closer look at what auditable database change management means under DORA, and some news we're proud of: Redgate Flyway has been named a Leader in the latest G2 report. Here's the round-up.
  |  By Maxime Drobot
This article examines DORA's requirements for database change management and explains how Redgate Flyway Enterprise addresses them. The EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) came into full effect in January 2025. It is designed to strengthen the ability of financial institutions to withstand operational disruption, whether caused by technology failures, data corruption, human error, or a cyberattack.
  |  By Redgate Software
Even small Oracle ASM issues can become big database problems. Here's how to spot the warning signs early. Tony and Tonie discuss how Redgate Monitor custom metrics help teams close a common monitoring gap: surfacing Oracle ASM health and performance issues before storage pressure, rebalancing problems, or disk group failures become database incidents.
  |  By Redgate Software
Faster SQL coding only releases engineering capacity if it doesn’t create more late-stage rework and deployment risk. Tony and Tonie discuss how SQL Toolbelt Essentials helps teams keep speed and control aligned. Learn how SQL Toolbelt Essentials helps SQL Server teams write better code faster, catch issues while the code is still being developed, and apply shared standards before changes reach review, test, or deployment.
  |  By Redgate Software
How well do the Redgate Advocates know SQL Server? Find out in this quick-fire quiz, recorded live with an audience at SQL Saturday Day of Data Baton Rouge on July 18th!
  |  By Redgate Software
A quick introduction to Redgate Flyway Enterprise.
  |  By Redgate Software
Grant is joined by SQL Server veteran and long-time Microsoft MVP, Hugo Kornelis, to talk all things SQL Server query tuning, execution plans, and more. You’ll hear about some of the problems Hugo’s encountered during his consultancy career, what SQL Server has in common with a highway, and Hugo’s thoughts on AI – plus much more.
  |  By Redgate Software
In a recent article, The Register suggested that SQL Server is “too lucrative to ditch, but too legacy to love” - but is that actually true? With many years’ SQL Server, PostgreSQL and Oracle experience between them, Steve Jones, Kellyn Gorman, Grant Fritchey, and Pat Wright offer their thoughts on the article, and the current state of SQL Server as a whole - including how it fares against other databases in 2026.
  |  By Redgate Software
In this episode of the Redgate Simple Talk podcast, Kellyn Gorman is joined by veteran Data Platform Architect, David Klee, to talk all things SQL Server performance tuning. Learn why "it's slow" is the least useful thing anyone can tell a DBA, why you need a real baseline before diagnosing anything, and why a database is never 'just' a database - plus much more. Thanks to David for his time.
  |  By Redgate Software
Two major PostgreSQL community events took place recently: PostgreSQL Development Conference 2026 (Vancouver, BC, Canada), and PG DATA 2026 (Chicago, IL). Pat Wright and Kellyn Gorman attended both and, in this quick-fire episode, offer their thoughts and key takeaways from the events. Recorded on-site at PASS Summit Europe in Frankfurt, Germany (June 11th, 2026).
  |  By Redgate Software
Kristyna Ferris turned down grad school, learned Power BI, moved into the data world - and never looked back. In this chat with Steve Jones, Kristyna explains why she did it, what she’s learned, and even why her first DBA changed her password! Plus: being a Microsoft MVP, the importance of self-learning, being inspired to get involved with the community, and Kristyna’s passion for Lego, movies, and more!
  |  By Redgate Software
Your schema changed. Did your masking rules keep up? Here’s how Flyway and Test Data Manager can catch gaps and prevent PII exposure in dev and test. Tony and Tonie discuss how Flyway and Redgate Test Data Manager can work together in a CI pipeline to detect schema changes that introduce unmasked sensitive columns, helping teams keep production-derived test data protected as the database evolves.

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