Faster Provisioning with SQL Clone

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2 Faster Provisioning with SQL Clone Redgate Software Grant Fritchey, Product Evangelist, Redgate Software Richard Macaskill, Product Manager, Redgate Software

3 Get in touch Grant Fritchey

4 Get in touch Richard

5 Goals 1. Encourage you to give your developers necessary data for more accurate development and testing 2. Provide a mechanism for automating and managing provisioning of development and test databases 3. Enable you to better support a DevOps approach within your environment 5

6 Problems: Realistic Data Matching production volumes Mirroring data distribution of real data Repeatable testing Accurate testing and evaluation

7 Problems: Drive space Multiple teams and multiple branches Realistic data Isolated environments 8x the amount of production data

8 Problems: Shared Environments Multiple development teams Multiple developers per team Multiple branches of code Main branch Hot fixes New Development Testing teams for each

9 Problems: Regulatory Compliance Business regulations are increasing Health Care Banking Insurance Mens rea International compliance (GDPR) Cost of data breaches!

10 Problems: General Data Cleanliness It s not just about regulations & jail Customer info Special needs for testing or business

11 Do More With The Same You More development teams, more testing teams and more projects Must meet more and growing list of requirements Same DBA team

12 What Is SQL Clone? SQL Clone is a SQL Server database cloning tool that allows you to create editable copies of databases within seconds while using very little additional disk space.

13 How Does SQL Clone Work? 1. Create a data image of a live SQL Server database or backup 2. Create clones from your data image on any machine that can access the file 3. Save changes to the diff file 4. Create a data image of the clone to persist changes

14 What Can SQL Clone Do For You? Give your team their own local production-like database in seconds using a fraction of the disk space. Allow developers to work in isolated environments without overwriting each others changes. Test against realistic data and server settings to identify issues before they reach production. Automate provisioning for testing on realistic data and scenarios. Create clones during application debug to test code against realistic data. Reduce time to analysis and fix issues in production faster.

15 Demo

16 Solutions: Realistic Data Clean the data as necessary Create a SQL Clone database copy Share that copy, including realistic data, with all teams

17 Solutions: Drive Space Clones are small (save up to 99% of disk space) Differential storage only Refresh of an environment resets space used

18 Solutions: Shared Environments Isolated Environments! Multiple clones per data image Multiple environments Clones are very small Creating clones takes seconds

19 Solutions: Regulatory Compliance Clean data in a clone or a copy of database Create new data image Distribute the cleaned data image as clones Works with database internal processes such as Dynamic Data Masking (if your security is the same)

20 Solutions: General Data Cleanliness Clean data prior to clone process OR 1. Create a clone from a data image 2. Clean the clone 3. Create a data image of the cleaned clone 4. Clone the new data image

21 Solutions: Do More Faster than normal restores Smaller than normal restores Fully automatable Self-service

22 Conclusion Database provisioning doesn t need to be an ad hoc, all consuming task anymore! Driving forces for change: Faster coherent development More accurate testing Regulatory pressures Faster diagnosis

23 Goals 1. Encourage you to give your developers necessary data for more accurate development and testing 2. Provide a mechanism for automating and managing provisioning of development and test databases 3. Enable you to better support a DevOps approach within your environment

24 Thank You Download the Beta! or #sqlclone