Bringing Control Back to Database Deployment with ReadyRoll and Entity Framework Code First Migrations

Redgate makes ingeniously simple software used by 804,745 IT professionals and counting, and is the leading Microsoft SQL Server tools vendor. Our philosophy is to design highly usable, reliable tools which elegantly solve the problems developers and DBAs face every day, and help them adopt database DevOps. As a result, more than 100,000 companies use products in the Redgate SQL Toolbelt, including 91% of those in the Fortune 100.

Daniel Nolan, is the creator of ReadyRoll SQL Projects, a database migrations and deployment tool that makes it easy for software teams to develop SQL Server databases within Visual Studio. ReadyRoll was acquired by Redgate in June 2015. Dan started ReadyRoll as a side project in late 2010 while he was working in the financial services industry. For many years Dan had been working as a Release Engineer, handling the deployment of all of the company’s line of business applications. Dan has now joined Redgate as a Product Manager focused on helping customers achieve Continuous Delivery for their databases. Find Daniel on Twitter @dnlnln