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Doing agile – do I need to think about the rest of the enterprise?
I recently read an interesting article – Governing Agile Development Teams – by Scott Ambler A couple of points particularly resonated with me – as they relate to my blog Agile database development...
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Automatically tracking database schema changes
Last modified: 2010-11-14 How can you quickly find out what changes have recently been made to your database schema? Previous blogs have shown how to include version numbers with a database and how...
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Versioning individual SQL objects
How can you quickly check which build version a SQL object in your database was created/last altered in? How can you correlate changes to individual SQL objects with the overall application...
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Moving towards agile database development
I’ve recently come across an interesting article – Emergent database design: Liberating database development with agile practices It is an overview of a team’s experience of moving towards agile...
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Database testing framework renamed to DBTestUnit
As of Feb 2011- the ‘Database Testing Framework’ has been renamed to ‘DBTestUnit’. A number of changes have been made to reflect this name change: The URL to download the testing framework from...
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Managing SQL scripts and continuous integration
If you look at developer forums, such as StackOverFlow, questions around managing SQL scripts and database changes are posted quite frequently. As discussed in a previous blog – Agile database...
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Continuous deployment
I’ve come across a couple of interesting articles about continuous deployment – see Continous deployment and Continuous Deployment at IMVU: Doing the impossible fifty times a day. This development...
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Automatically managing SQL scripts that change between environments
Introduction Changing SQL scripts between different environments often causes issues for development teams. Many continue to manually change scripts– making deployment more error prone and difficult...
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Tracking SQL schema changes
In – Roll your own lightweight SQL server source control – Ryan McCauley has provided a SQL sproc that can be used for MS SQL databases to poll for schema changes – with any changes stored in a...
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Building the Agile Database – book review
How do you create enterprise quality databases, that can be built quickly, effectively maintained/changed over their often long lifetimes and therefore achieve real and sustainable business value –...
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