How Standard Bank overcame technical and cultural challenges to implement database CI/CD! Redgate’s Grant Fritchey talks to James Grant from Standard Bank about implementing continuous integration and continuous deployment to their databases. Join us to hear about the challenges they faced along the way, how they overcame them, and the benefits they’re now seeing. In this session you’ll learn about: • Addressing management concerns such as the high cost of failure, protecting business-critical data, and difficulty tracking changes • Overcoming resistance to change in the teams and getting change past the “old guard” • Brown-field vs green-field CI/CD pipelines and the technical challenges of bringing existing database solutions onto a pipeline • Using database unit testing as more than just a way to limit bugs and errors

1. Taming the Wild West
How Standard Bank overcame technical and
cultural challenges to implement database CI/CD

2. Get in touch
James Grant
Automation/DevOps Lead at Standard Bank Group
Grant Fritchey
Microsoft MVP and Product Advocate at Redgate
Grant.Fritchey@red-gate.com James.Grant@standardbank.co.za

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4. Background

5. What were the pain points and
challenges that provoked the
need for the change?

6. What sort of outages and data
losses were experienced due to
issues with the deployment and
testing process?

7. The implementation
process

8. How did you start the process of
implementing CI & CD?

9. Who were the major stake-
holders in the organization at
the start of this process?

10. Where did you meet resistance
or issues as you began the
implementation of your process?

11. The results

12. Can you describe the process
that you’ve arrived at?

13. Is the business satisfied with
the changes in process that
have occurred?

14. In what ways have Redgate
products played a role in your
new process?

15. How did you measure your
level of pain before and after
implementing these new
methodologies?

16. What have been the benefits
to the DBA team?

17. Have there been benefits for
the development teams?

18. If you had one piece of advice
for someone setting out on
this path, what would it be?

19. Questions

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