Nowadays the question “Why put database under source control?” no longer makes sense. Probably “How to put database under source control?” is now the correct question. But before answering the second question let me answer the first identifying the reasons that led me/us team to invest on database source control: Is the first step of database automation In other words, if you want to assemble a database deployment pipeline you should put your database changes into a source control system; Keep …
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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 …
Last Tuesday (15 December 2015) I made my first presentation in Porto.Data community. “Road to database automation” was the title and the this session had two main goals: discuss the challenges of database inclusion in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and present a set of strategies and tools to achieve this inclusion. The effort of database inclusion in the “agile context” is designated as Database Lifecycle Management (DLM) and is composed by 3 main parts: database source control, database continuous …
One of my first projects using Arduino happened during the Christmas season, so seemed a good idea to create Christmas lights to illuminate and brighten the house. The first step is to gather the necessary hardware: 1 x Arduino, I used the Arduino 2009; 2 x breadboard, should be enough to perform the tests; 1 x switch button, it will be used to switch between the diferrent lightning effects; 8 x red LEDs 8 x green LEDs 8 x yellow …
My first contact with SQLSaturday event occurred in 2014 on the SQLSaturday#341 Porto 2014 edition as simple and curious attendant. A full day of learning, sharing and meeting people sounds to good to be true especially if it´s free. At the end of the day I was amazed, and asked myself why organize and event like this? The answer is quite simple: sharing. The same principle lead me to join Porto.Data community. It was here that I met Ivan Campos the …