18Mar 2019 by Grant Fritchey 1 Comment

Compliance Ain’t Easy

Redgate Software
I'm sure by now you've heard of the GDPR and some of the large scale data breaches that have occurred within it. If you haven't heard of the GDPR, you've been under a rock, or, you're like me, a United States citizen (it's amazing how little we know about this oncoming train). If you're seeing the four letters GDPR strung together for the first time, then you better jump on learning about it right now. Why? Let's string together more letters, CPPA. That stands for the California Privacy and Protection Act. That's a law modeled off the GDPR that goes into effect in 2020 (yeah, nine months). Compliance Isn't Always Spelled GDPR Maybe you're not in an EU country and you don't have any person's data from there. Maybe you…
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30Jul 2018 by Grant Fritchey No Comments

Identifying HIPAA, PCI & SOX Data for Masking

Redgate Software
Working for a company based in the UK (still currently a part of the EU) I had a lot of motivation to learn about the GDPR and what it means for data professionals. Further, the understanding that, through treaties and court precedent, the GDPR can apply to companies around the world also motivated me to learn about the privacy and protection mechanisms that it required. However, there is privacy and protection much closer to home from the data and security definitions in HIPAA, PCI and SOX. I've been doing a bunch of research on all these to better understand how they, along with the GDPR, and a whole slew of new legislation coming from around the world, will impact the database. More specifically, I've been trying to understand how best…
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07Jun 2018 by Grant Fritchey No Comments

SQL in the City Streamed: June 2018

DevOps, Redgate Software
Next week, Redgate Software, will be putting on SQL in the City Streamed. These events are a great way to learn about SQL Server, the Microsoft Data Platform, privacy and protection, the GDPR, and, of course, DevOps. All of that, with some great information on Redgate tools and how they can help tossed in there. Agenda Scroll down at the link and check out the agenda. We're covering a pretty wide range of topics this time. I have the keynote, and I'm not going to tell you what it's about yet. OK. I'll tell you a little. Twist my arm. I have a message about DevOps that I think is very important. When it comes to the database, we frequently think about development and deployment as nothing but change, and…
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11Apr 2018 by Grant Fritchey No Comments

Privacy and Protection, By Design

Redgate Software
With all the noise about the upcoming enforcement of GDPR, I know that people are starting to focus more on privacy and protection. Add in all the other news about data breaches and data leaks and suddenly, privacy and protection isn't just a business concern, it's personal. Where do you go if you want to learn more? How about the SQL Privacy Summit? SQL Privacy Summit Redgate is hosting the first SQL Privacy Summit on May 18th in London, brought to you by the producers of SQL in the City. Yes, lots of information on the GDPR and compliance will be available. However, we're going way beyond that. The reason it's called the Privacy Summit and not just "The GDPR Summit" is because we're talking about more than compliance. We…
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17Apr 2017 by Grant Fritchey 2 Comments

The Age of Data and Software Development

Professional Development
I am so excited to be a data professional in the modern era. Yeah, 15-20 years ago, it was cool to be a DBA and a database developer. However, now, it's amazing. Data drives, or should drive, all our decisions. Whether we're deciding how high to set the cost threshold for parallelism, which query we want to tune, or even which product would serve us best, we should be making these decisions based on data. It's not just about getting the average or the min & max, although, those are the start points. Now, you need to start to take into account standard deviation and you probably should learn how to run a regression analysis. All these tools will make you a better more valuable employee. It's not any different…
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