Justin Bird

Epic Quest

2020-09-19 · 1 min read

Here lies our quest towards total epicness 2020 has been a trialling time for everyone. The Bird Family Quest has evolved from stumbling across Brent Ozar's Epic Life Quest and in turn, Steve Kamb's Epic Quest of Awesome who originally inspired Brent. I've always loosely kept a bucket list but never really dedicated …

Unplugging

2020-09-19 · 11 min read

I'm immersed in the world of tech Tech has provided me a great career and an opportunity to provide for my family, but recently I've found it utterly consuming. The always-on world of tech is designed to keep you switched on as much as possible and I've often found huge buckets of time lost to falling down the internet …

SQL Provision First Look Part2

2019-10-02 · 8 min read sqlclone datamasker compliance

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Recap In my first post on Redgate SQL Provision, I ran some basic tests against the AdventureWorksDW2017 database to demonstrate how SQL Provision works. The headline was that I saved 47 seconds cloning a database in 2 seconds that took 49 seconds to provision, nothing to write home about. So to really prove how cool …

SQL Provision First Look Part1

2019-10-01 · 10 min read sqlclone datamasker compliance

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First Look at Data Provision I managed to get some time with Redgate at SQLBits XVIII and was interested in seeing a demo of SQL Provision. I've watched Redgate promoting Compliant Database DevOps heavily over the past 6 months and was intrigued to see their latest product in action. It didn't disappoint! Compliant …