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.
1
vote
0answers
145 views
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 ...
3
votes
1answer
86 views
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 ...
2
votes
3answers
233 views
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 ...
5
votes
2answers
236 views
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.
...
