The results are in! Join our expert panel, Kendra Little, Kellyn Pot’Vin Gorman & Grant Fritchey, to dig into key findings from Redgate’s fourth annual State of Database DevOps Report and learn how to use these insights to drive improvements in your own software development process. Our webinar panel this year includes specialists with expertise in both Oracle and SQL Server, as well as experience implementing and managing Agile methodologies and compliant database DevOps in Enterprise environments. We will share key findings and insights from this year’s report, which received input from more than two thousand developers, DBAs, and IT leaders worldwide, representing all industry verticals. Topics will include: • Frequent database deployments are increasing: 49% of respondents now report they deploy database changes to production weekly or more frequently; • The two top perceived obstacles to implementing DevOps are now concerns about upskilling and disruption to existing workflows. We will discuss how business cases to implement database DevOps should address these concerns; • Developers are now involved in the majority of production database deployments, continuing an increasing trend we have seen across four years of this study. We will discuss what this means for both developers and DBAs; • Most respondents deploy changes to their most business-critical databases while the system is online. Those who perform all or nearly all deployments with the system online reported lower lead time for changes and lower defect rates. We will discuss why this makes sense and how teams achieve this; • Respondents who report that it is easy to get a code review for database changes also report lower production defect rates and lower lead time for changes to be deployed to production. We will discuss how to optimize database code review for different organization and team sizes.

1. Key Findings from the 2020
State of Database DevOps
Report

2. Grant Fritchey
@GFritchey
DevOps Advocate at Redgate
with more than 30 years
experience in IT
Kellyn Pot'Vin-Gorman
@DBAKevlar
Customer Success Engineer at Microsoft
specializing in Oracle On Azure, Data
Platform, and automation
Kendra Little
@Kendra_Little
DevOps Advocate at Redgate
Your panel today…

4. Respondents

5. 41%
59%
Enterprises Smaller organizations
More than 2,000 respondents to the 2020
survey

6. Findings

7. 26%
23%
18%18% 17%
21%
18%
20%
24%
2018 2019 2020
Shifting views on the primary drawback of
siloed database development
Increased risk of failed deployments / downtime
Inability to respond quickly to changing business requirements
Slow development and release cycles

8. 7% 8%
10%
14%
16%
22% 23%
Exec support Other Budget Awareness of
business
benefits
Alignment
between dev
& ops
Skills Disruption to
workflows
Perceived obstacles to DevOps adoption

9. 17% 15% 14%
44% 42%
35%37%
40%
49%!!!
2018 2019 2020
Production database deployment frequency is
increasing
Once or a few times a year
Once or twice a Month
Daily, Weekly, or on Demand

10. 55%
34%
20%
45%
25%
21%
Authors Deploys
Roles for database changes
Devs DBAs Both

11. 17%
27%
55%
No deployments to live
environment
A few deployments to live
environment
All or most deployments to live
environment
Most production database deployments occur
when the environment is live for users

12. 37%
20%
28%
45%
43%
39%
19%
37%
33%
Easy to get a code
review
Difficult to get a code
review
No code review
Early code review for database changes is
associated with lower production defect rates
1% or less of deployments have defects
2-10% of deployments have defects
More than 10% of deployments have defects
Best result

13. 15%
11%
25% 23%
60%
66%
Enterprise Non-Enterprise
How long would it take to fully implement
Database DevOps?
More than 2 years 1-2 years A year or less

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