Migrations are the biggest challenge facing database professionals, authoritative new Redgate report reveals
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Migrations are the biggest challenge facing database professionals, authoritative new Redgate report reveals The second edition of the only industry report that benchmarks monitoring in the SQL Server community has revealed that migrations are now the number one priority for database professionals. As Jamie Wallis, Redgate Product Marketing Manager, comments: “In a way, this is a perfect storm for SQL Server professionals. The organizations they work for want the advantages the cloud brings, particularly for greenfield projects, and they also want to avoid the risk of using an unsupported platform. It’s perhaps no surprise then that 43% of respondents to the survey now use a third-party monitoring tool, a figure which rises to 60% in organizations with 50 SQL Servers or more. As well as providing long-term tracking of trends like growth in database size, they can identify issues with queries where human error has caused problems, fix them, and prevent them happening again.