Database DevOps Grant Fritchey in Database DevOps What is database continuous integration? Have you ever longed for a way of making the delivery of databases more visible, predictable and measurable? Do you ever wish that they would... 07 October 2020 9 min read
Grant Fritchey Database Lifecycle Management: Deployment and Release Grant Fritchey covers database lifecycle management. So often, the unexpected delays in delivering database code are more likely to happen after the developers initiate the... 20 June 2020 35 min read
Database DevOps Edward Elliott in Database DevOps A DLM Approach to Database Testing Database Lifecycle Management aims to make the development and modification of databases more predictable. Bugs are the source of more unpredictability than anything else, purely... 13 April 2017 45 min read
Database DevOps Knut Jürgensen in Database DevOps Planning for Successful Data Management It is the data, in particular, that sets Database Lifecycle Management apart from the mainstream of application delivery. Data entities, and the way that organisations... 29 November 2016 26 min read
Database DevOps William Brewer in Database DevOps DevOps and Database Lifecycle Management Database Lifecycle Management (DLM) aims to provide a roadmap of what is required, and when, to deliver and maintain effective databases that can respond quickly... 18 November 2016 13 min read
William Brewer Planning for a Successful Database Lifecycle Although it is well-known that the best efforts of a development team can be derailed by mistakes in the architecture, design and general governance of... 09 June 2016 35 min read
Matthew Skelton Database Version Control By placing under source control everything we need to describe any version of a database, we make it much easier to achieve consistent database builds... 24 March 2016 34 min read
Matthew Skelton 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 processes tend to grow in... 16 March 2016 32 min read
Matthew Skelton 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 to preserve the existing data... 09 March 2016 34 min read
Matthew Skelton Issue Tracking for Databases Any database development project will be hard to manage without a system for reporting bugs in the code, anomalies and incidents from live environments, and... 25 February 2016 20 min read
Grant Fritchey Better Ways to Build a Database The purpose of a database build is simple: prove that what you have in version control can successfully create a working database. And yet many... 19 February 2016 40 min read