The first question I thought was: if applications development includes “by default” concepts as source control, continuous integration and continuous delivery, why not database development? As Len Bass said in a conference: “A script is just a program”. All database changes can be scripted, so what is so special about databases? The answer is simple: data, specifically data persistence. One of my favorite answers was given by Grant Fritchey: “Deploying databases has the inherent problem of retaining the data after the …