This year we’ve been expanding SQL Monitor’s capabilities around the theme of Estate Management and we’ve just released a new capability – the discovery of on-premises SQL Servers and instances. We started on this journey with basic instance configuration observability and alerting earlier this year. While gathering feedback and finding ways to improve our new configuration features, we worked on and released an Instance Discovery Tool as a preview feature.

A new case study shows how Desjardins uses Flyway Teams to standardize the way migration scripts are created and versioned across its multi-database estate, which includes Oracle, SQL Server and PostgreSQL. With assets of over $350 billion and seven million members and clients, Desjardins is the leading financial cooperative in North America.

Redgate recently published the 2021 State of Database DevOps report which, for the last five years, has followed the rise in DevOps and the challenges organizations face when adopting it for both application and database development. Based on a survey of thousands of IT professionals from around the world, it also provides the opportunity to dive a little deeper into how those challenges vary sector by sector.

I’m a Data Architect and I’ve been working with data and databases for years at companies like LA Fitness, Dell and now Kingston Technology in Fountain Valley, California. Over all of that time, I’ve used SQL Monitor. I loved it from the beginning and the latest updates to the global overview dashboard and other features have stepped it up another few notches.

Last year was a year of unprecedented challenges for everyone in every part of the world and every industry, and it was also a year of big changes in the IT sector. The pandemic underscored the role of the IT department as an enabler and a critical part of the transition to remote working. While digitalization was well underway before 2020, no one could have predicted the acceleration the pandemic brought on.

As part of our research for the 2021 State of Database DevOps report, we asked 3,000+ recipients what they consider to be the greatest challenge when integrating database changes into a DevOps process. According to the respondents, these are the most important challenges facing database professionals when introducing DevOps practices to database development.