Database Version Control

By placing under source control everything we need to describe any version of a database, we make it much easier...

Database Lifecycle Management for ETL Systems

Few databases are self-contained. They take data from other sources, and publish them to downstream consumers of data. These ETL...

Database Migrations: Modifying Existing Databases

It should be simple to upgrade a database to a new version. It certainly can be, but if you need...

Issue Tracking for Databases

Any database development project will be hard to manage without a system for reporting bugs in the code, anomalies and...

Continuous Delivery for Databases: Microservices, Team Structures, and Conway’s Law

Having described some of the most common database deployability blockers, Matthew Skelton proposes a way to enable database continuous delivery...

Common database deployment blockers and Continuous Delivery headaches

Deployability is now a first class concern for databases, so why isn't it as easy as it should be? Matthew...