The process of managing change to systems (software and/or hardware) to mitigate risks and control when, where, what, and how changes move and who is allowed to move them.

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When using a master plus multiple slaves, how do I change over from one server to a brand new one with minimal downtime?

In my particular case, I'm using Heroku Postgres (repackaged Amazon EC2 instances running PostgreSQL), but platform-agnostic answers are also good! Heroku's instructions describe the process for ...
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What mechanisms do you use to notify third parties of future schema changes?

How do you notify third parties of future SQL Server schema changes other than through external documentation? I've started implementing a deprecation warning extended property on objects that will ...
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Storing Changes To Records

Everything I am talking about relate to relational database, specific MySQL. I have a number of tables in a database and for a moderate number of them, I am going to want to store a history of the ...
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Best practices for change management with indexes

Our IT shop is first starting to build a group of DBA's. All of us (myself included) have come over from the application development/architecture world, so the DBA world is still fairly new to us. ...