Hi all, Does anyone know of a good tool to automatically deploy DB changes and associated data migration as part of the build and release process ? We are...
My February column is now available online at http://www.ddj.com/dept/database/196900212?cid=Ambysoft . The article summarizes a survey that I ran in the Fall...
Cameron Laird recently posted a very balanced review of Refactoring Databases at http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=10110/ur0612g/ur0612g.htm . - Scott ...
Just thought I'd send this out again: August 13 - 17, Washington, DC, Marriott Renaissance Hotel http://www.agile2007.org Deadline: January 26, 2007 Agile...
** Deadline postponed to January 26th, 2007 ** Eighth International Conference on Agile Processes in Software Engineering and eXtreme Programming XP 2007 June...
Hi all, I've been starting to work in Ruby on Rails, and I'm wondering what some of your opinions are of the Rails platform itself and the conventional Rails...
Eighth International Conference on Agile Processes in Software Engineering and eXtreme Programming XP 2007 June 18-24, 2007 Como, Italy http://www.xp2007.org ...
At http://www.agiledata.org/essays/renameColumn.html I've posted an example of how database refactorings are described in mine and Pramod's book "Refactoring ...
I recently wrote a two-part series for Rational Edge describing how to take a RUP-based approach to DW development. As you'd expect, the approach includes a ...
Hello, Can anyone help me with a question ? It concerns Scott Amblers UML database modelling profile. I worked through the profile, but could not figure out, ...
Deb Hartmann has posted an article at http://www.infoq.com/news/2006/12/vsts-for-database-launch where I was interviewed regarding the release of VSTS for...
I have an article on database refactoring in the issue which is posted at http://www.objectiveviewmagazine.com/. The issue is action packed as you can see from...
Lets say I hypothetically, have a database with these tables: article ... article_id title body article_field ... article_field article_id name value Lets say...
Hi I wonder if you have some specific thought about using: (Hibernate XOR Stored Procedures) I am currently develiping an Eclipse based RCP and I have been ...
Better Software magazine's Feature Article By Payson Hall For many of us, design is the most enjoyable part of software development. Oh sure, debugging can be...
Date: 30 Nov 2006 14:54:53 -0000 From: agileDatabases@yahoogroups.com To: agileDatabases@yahoogroups.com Subject: [agileDatabases] Digest Number 500 There are...
Below is the call for presentations for the Architecture and Design world conference. I've spoken at it several times and it's been a great event every time....
... For those that might be interested, I've posted in response to that list... in particular, the assertion (also made by Scott) that using stored procedures...
Greetings, We would like to announce the initial release of dbdeploy - an open source database change management tool. dbdeploy has risen out of several...
The Jolt Awards nominations page is at www.joltawards.com. Every year the best development tools, books, and sites are awarded a "Jolt" by the folks at Dr....
I've been asked by the application developer to design a database containing generic schedules. There are 14 generic pay schedules (pay on January 1, February...
Scott, I know you have been advocating the development of database refactoring tools so I thought you'd be interested in a new refactoring tool from RedGate...
A few developer friends of mine are fighting a small (turned large) battle where an architect who is pushing an EAV data model (Entity/ Attribute/Value) on...
Curt, you honor your email adress (@cynic.net) quite well. It seems to me you haven't Hibernate much or even at all (not a judgement, just an observation), so...
Academia is really good about teaching heavyweight methods. Any thoughts on what it takes to get a university to teach agile methods as part of a CS, SE ...
I have written ddlsuite.py, a script to submit .sql files for refactoring a Firebird database. Provided you keep the .sql files under version control it should...
I subscribe to the conventional wisdom that it is baaaaaaad to embed business info in a database key. However, I'm tempted to make an exception and would be...
There is a place for an EAV database architecture. Its probably not a fairly standard OLTP application, for the reasons that Martin lists below. There's not...
I was reading the chapter "5 - normalization Process", page 161 in "database design" on Teradata site and came across a QA for "Foreign Key Domains" that left...