The Agile Database

Abstract

Does your development team’s database strategy suck? Does your team even have a database strategy, or is this vital portion of your enterprise application - the repository of the data upon which your entire application rests - in the hands of some guy who sits on another floor or two buildings down the street? Is he even a member of your team?

The tutorial’s presenters do not have their sights trained on your database administrator, but they do intend to lay waste to the inefficiency and backward thinking inherent in the database-related practices of most development teams. The tutorial will present a proven plan for adding agility to the database (starting with making the DBA a true member of the team). Participants will be shown how the application database can be structured to provide each team member with control of their own data space (similar to individual application instances). The presenters will explain, in detail, how processes and tools can be used to make the database more manageable and open to refactoring. Finally, the presenters will address the issue of applications that are already in production, and detail how the above topics still can apply to production environments.