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Agile and SQL links

Started by Glenn Slaven · 11 months ago

Scott Bellware of CodeBetter.com has a great article on CoDe Magazine about agile development and how it improves the whole development lifecyle.  He has this to say about the old way of running a development project:
Somewhere in the lost pre-history of software development, ... Continue reading »

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  • Scott

    2 years ago

    It is much easier to rename a column when all you got is one production site, a testing site and a few development sites. In our case, changing a column would require

    - Change a column in the table definition file
    - Write an upgrade script and test it against trunk + 2 branches
    - Rebuild the 2 release branches
    - Test the new builds
    - Get permission from clients who need the change about upgrading
    - Push out the change across 60+ servers in the evenings
    - Send the patches + upgrade instructions to clients who are not hosted with us
    - Wait for the support calls in the morning when clients found some incompatibility :)

    Around a week of work, and we are already trying to be as agile as possible :(

    Moreover, I found when the development only involves micro-iterations, people are less likely to work on re-factoring and re-architecturing the code, which are usually necessary when you are looking at 5+ years into the project...
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  • Glenn Slaven

    2 years ago

    60+ servers? Wow, I would hate to be your DBA!
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