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Evolutionary Database Design

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Over the last decade we've developed and refined a number of techniques that allow a database design to evolve as an application develops. This is a very important capability for agile methodologies. The techniques rely on applying continuous integration and automated refactoring to database development, together with a close collaboration between DBAs and application developers. The techniques work in both pre-production and released systems, in green field projects as well as legacy systems. May 2016 Pramod developed the original techniques of evolutionary database design and database refactoring used by Thoughtworks in 2000. Since then he has worked with many clients world-wide using and developing these techniques, trained many ThoughtWorkers, and written two books. Martin was delighted to find Pramod to take some sketchy ideas on evolving databases and solve all the tricky problems of making them work in practice. Martin's main role these days is to help his colleagues explain wha

Evolutionary Database Design Evolutionary Database Design Over the last decade we've developed and refined a number of techniques that allow a database design to evolve as an application develops. This is a very important capability for agile methodologies. The techniques rely on applying continuous integration and automated refactoring to database development, together with a close collaboration between DBAs and application developers. The techniques work in both pre-production and released systems, in green field projects as well as legacy systems. May 2016 Pramod Sadalage Pramod developed t

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