Case Study: Paymentsense cuts database provisioning time by 85% with Redgate SQL Clone

Paymentsense cuts database provisioning time by more than 85% with Redgate

Paymentsense, the UK's largest merchant services provider, faced a challenge with its database provisioning process, which was slow, brittle, and caused significant disk space issues for its development team. This obstacle hindered their DevOps progress, as developers often had to wait for copies and manage storage manually. The vendor Redgate provided a solution with its product, SQL Clone.

By implementing Redgate's SQL Clone, Paymentsense automated its provisioning. The solution creates a central data image from a nightly backup and then uses it to spin up numerous lightweight database clones for developers on demand. This cut provisioning time by more than 85%, eliminated the disk space problem, and provided developers with realistic, up-to-date data copies for more accurate testing.

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