Your business depends on rapidly deploying high-quality changes to databases while minimizing risk to data. Learn how to protect business-critical data and improve software delivery with Redgate’s Compliant Database DevOps solution, which extends DevOps processes to Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL Database.

1. Extend DevOps to
Your Microsoft Data
Platform Databases
Azure webinar series

2. Intro slide

3. Meet our speaker
Grant Fritchey
Microsoft Data Platform MVP
PASS Immediate Past President
Redgate Advocate

4. Meet our partner

5. Learn about the benefits of
DevOps for the DBA
Understand the capabilities
of the Azure DevOps
infrastructure in support of
the Data Platform
See how Redgate Tools
makes DevOps easy
Goals

6. Communication
is everything
All code in
source control
Shift Left
Automated
Tests
Automated
Deployments
Monitoring
DevOps fundamentals

7. Every database is
code
More backups is
better
Recovery is hard An “undo” button
in a database
Source Control is a Backup

8. 29%
23%
47%
44%
21%
30%
Version Control
No Version
Control
1% or less of deployments have defects
2-10% of deployments have defects
More than 10% of deployments have defects
Best result
Worst
result
Frequent deployers using version control
report lower defect rates
Source: Redgate State of Database DevOps Report 2020

9. “Shift Left” adds protection
Earlier testing Faster failure
Frequency of
deployment
Self-service means
learning

10. 37%
20%
28%
45%
43%
39%
19%
37%
33%
Easy to get a code review
Difficult to get a code
review
No code review
1% or less of deployments have defects
2-10% of deployments have defects
More than 10% of deployments have defects
Best result
Source: Redgate State of Database DevOps Report 2020
Early code review for database changes is
associated with lower production defect rates

11. Automated testing protects production
• When something breaks deploying in dev, build a test
• When something breaks deploying in CI, build a test
• When something breaks deploying to QA, build a test
• Every test improves protection for production
• Testing combined with “shift-left” improves production safety

12. No script
should run first
in production
Every
deployment is
a test
Practice is
fundamental to
mastery
“Shift-left”
makes practice
deployments
mean more
All this adds to
protection for
production
Frequent deployments means practice

13. 37% weekly
or better
40% weekly
or better
49% weekly
or better
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
2018 2019 2020
Once or a few times a year
Once or twice a Month
Daily, Weekly, or on Demand
Production database deployment frequency
is increasing
Source: Redgate State of Database DevOps Report 2020

14. Monitoring ensures behavior
Understand
behavior prior to
deployment
Know when
deployments occur
Understand
behavior after a
deployment
Monitoring drives
innovation
Protection starts
with monitoring

15. Communication
is everything
All code in
source control
Shift Left
Automated
Tests
Automated
Deployments
Monitoring
DevOps fundamentals

16. Redgate SQL Change Automation
Gets your database code
into and out of source
control
Deploys your changes
through Azure DevOps
Ensures repeatable
process
Provides mechanisms for
testing

17. Today you saw

18. Get started with Redgate
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19. Q&A

20. Thank you for joining us.