Nicole Waters

Nicole is an Account Manager at Redgate Software, having spent the past few years working with customers across EMEA and the Americas to implement compliant database DevOps. Passionate about database development, operations, and security, she has helped companies standardize workflows, mitigate risk, and reduce downtime. Nicole has collaborated with customers across various industries—from Technology to Manufacturing and Finance—to modernize practices and keep pace with the evolving database landscape. Nicole has delivered talks at numerous industry events, most recently in this year's Redgate Summit: London, where she co-delivered a session on De-risking the Database. Sharing insights with peers and discussing real-world challenges that she's seen firsthand has deepened her understanding of the role database DevOps plays in modern software delivery. Working alongside industry leaders, advocates, database experts, and Redgate's solutions engineers, Nicole has contributed to best practices and solutions for her customers’ complex database challenges. Through her work, Nicole has seen how Redgate's solutions help simplify complex database processes, giving teams the control and reliability needed to innovate without fear.

Nicole Waters's Sessions

Why Your Database Deployments Fail — and How Redgate Flyway Fixes ThemSQLBits 2025

Let’s cut to it — database deployments are still the riskiest part of your release process. From inconsistent scripts and missing dependencies to last-minute drift and poor collaboration between devs and DBAs, something always goes wrong. In this session, we’ll show you three real reasons your deployments are failing — and how Redgate Flyway fixes them fast. Using script generation, code analysis, and drift detection, Flyway gives you the visibility, automation, and control you need to release with confidence. You’ll leave with three practical practices you can apply immediately — and a clear path to a smoother, safer database release process.