Increase Quality & Deployment Speed with Redgate DevOps

Our Clear Measure team combines deep technical expertise with practical implementation experience to maximize your investment in Redgate tools. We bring extensive knowledge in database DevOps and proven methodologies in all of our Redgate consulting services.

We understand that successful Redgate implementation goes beyond tool installation. Our consultants work closely with your team to establish best practices, optimize workflows, and ensure your database development and deployment processes align with your business objectives. We've helped numerous organizations transform their database development lifecycle using Redgate's suite of tools.

Our comprehensive approach includes tailored training programs that ensure your team becomes proficient with Redgate tools quickly and efficiently. We don't just set up the tools – we help build a culture of database DevOps excellence within your organization. Our experience spans diverse industries and complex database environments, allowing us to anticipate and address challenges.

What sets Clear Measure apart is our focus on sustainable solutions. We design implementation strategies that scale with your organization, ensuring long-term success with Redgate tools. Our team stays current with the latest Redgate features and updates, bringing innovative solutions to enhance your database development processes.

Additionally, our ongoing support options ensure you continue to get the most value from your Redgate investment long after the initial implementation. We provide regular health checks, optimization recommendations, and responsive support when you need it most.

The Redgate deployment automation significantly accelerates deployment cycles by automating and streamlining critical database operations throughout the development lifecycle.

SQL Change Automation enables teams to adopt a true DevOps approach to database development. It integrates with popular version control systems and CI/CD pipelines, allowing database changes to be deployed alongside application code automatically. This eliminates the traditional bottleneck of manual database deployments and reduces the risk of deployment errors.

Flyway brings automated database migrations to the deployment process, executing versioned changes consistently across all environments. This ensures that database updates are predictable and repeatable, significantly reducing deployment time and eliminating the need for manual script execution.

SQL Compare and Data Compare automate the time-consuming process of comparing and synchronizing database schemas and data between environments. These tools can generate accurate deployment scripts in minutes, a task often that has been historically cumbersome. The visual comparison interface makes it easy to review changes before deployment, reducing the risk of unexpected issues.

SQL Clone dramatically reduces provisioning time for development and test databases by creating lightweight copies of production databases in seconds, regardless of size. This allows teams to quickly spin up new environments without waiting for lengthy backup restoration processes.

The integration between these tools creates a seamless deployment pipeline, where changes can be developed, tested, and deployed rapidly while maintaining data integrity and reducing human error. You can easily automate software deployment with Redgate reducing deployment cycles from days to hours or even minutes.

Redgate Flyway is a popular open-source database migration tool that brings version control and deployment automation to database schema changes. It treats database changes like code, using a straightforward, SQL-based migration approach that makes database versioning predictable and reliable.

At its core, Flyway works by executing a sequence of versioned SQL migration files in a specific order. These files contain the SQL commands needed to modify the database schema or reference data. Flyway keeps track of which migrations have been applied by maintaining a special table in your database, ensuring that each migration script runs exactly once and in the correct order.

Key benefits of using Flyway include:

• Repeatable deployments that work the same way every time
• Support for multiple database types (PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, and others)
• Reduce deployment failures with Redgate
• Integration with popular build tools
• The ability to handle both forward migrations and undo scripts
• Support for multiple development branches and complex deployment scenarios

For teams leveraging database DevOps, Flyway eliminates the traditional pain points of database deployments by providing a reliable, repeatable process that can be version controlled alongside application code.

Redgate Monitor is the leader among SQL Server performance monitoring tools! It helps identify and resolve performance issues before they impact end users. By providing real-time insights and historical analysis of SQL Server performance metrics, it enables database administrators and developers to optimize database performance effectively.

The tool continuously collects detailed performance data, tracking key metrics like CPU usage, memory utilization, I/O operations, and query execution times. Through its intuitive dashboard, we can quickly spot performance bottlenecks, blocking issues, and resource-intensive queries that might be slowing down the system.

One of Redgate Monitor's key features is its ability to capture and analyze query execution plans, helping teams identify poorly performing queries and index usage problems. It provides detailed wait statistics analysis, showing exactly where SQL Server spends time waiting and helping pinpoint the root causes of performance issues.

The tool also excels at capacity planning by tracking performance trends over time. Its alerting system can notify teams about potential issues before they become critical, allowing proactive performance management rather than reactive problem-solving.

For businesses running multiple SQL Server instances, Redgate Monitor provides a centralized view of all servers, making it easier to manage performance across the entire database estate. Its estate-wide search capabilities help quickly locate specific queries or performance patterns across multiple servers.

The historical data retention feature enables teams to analyze performance trends over time, making it easier to correlate performance issues with specific application changes or business events.

Redgate database management relies on their Test Data Manager tools, which offers crucial benefits for organizations needing to maintain compliance while working with sensitive data during development and testing processes.

Its primary strength lies in its ability to create realistic, production-like test data while protecting sensitive information. It automatically identifies and masks personally identifiable information (PII), financial data, and other regulated data types, ensuring compliance with regulations. So many companies rely on Redgate for GDPR and HIPAA compliance within their database. This masking process maintains referential integrity and data relationships, ensuring test databases remain functionally accurate while being compliance-safe.

Test Data Manager's subsetting capabilities allow teams to create smaller, manageable test databases that maintain the characteristics of production data without exposing sensitive information. This reduces storage costs and speeds up testing cycles while maintaining compliance requirements.

Test Data Manager provides detailed audit trails of all data masking and subsetting operations, which is essential for demonstrating compliance to auditors. It documents what data was masked, when, and by whom, creating a clear chain of custody for sensitive information.

The tool also features role-based access controls, ensuring that only authorized team members can access and modify data masking rules and sensitive data, further strengthening compliance posture.