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I would like to learn if agile software development methods/principles/patterns are valid to SQL programming as well. If yes, where would be a good place to start learning about that? Are there any articles or books targeting agile development in SQL context?

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can you add agile tag to your question? – AlexKuznetsov Mar 1 '12 at 14:35
@AlexKuznetsov Unfortunately I can't :( "Users with less than 300 reputation can't create new tags. The tag 'agile' is new." – Κύριε ἐλέησον Mar 1 '12 at 16:32

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Yes. There is a whole web site devoted to it: Agile Data

I'm using it now for a brand new project.

Also see: Should you design the database before the application code is written?. My answer there doesn't capture what I do now: 2 week sprints, good enough for that sprint. As per the Agile Data site

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That's an interesting link, Agile Data. How do you like using it? – Thomas Stringer Feb 29 '12 at 2:53
@Shark: good. It focuses on the here and now, not "we might need this". So you manage a well scoped delivery. Note: I still model using a whiteboard and meatsacks first, and it's in 5NF... – gbn Feb 29 '12 at 2:57
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I've been doing Agile development for more than four years, including my SQL Server projects, and I really like it. I think it is important to understand why and when Agile is useful, from the perspective of the whole system, and general purpose Agile-related books such as the following fit the bill: " Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C#", " Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture".

The following two books are focused on database development, as you asked, but I would read the general purpose ones first: "Agile database techniques", "Refactoring databases"

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