Dogfooding, or eating your own dog food, is a practice that all product developers should implement all the time. According to wikipedia: Dogfooding, occurs when an organization uses its own product. This can be a way for an organization to test its products in real-world usage. Hence dogfooding can act as quality control, and eventually … Continue reading Dogfooding in Product Development
Tag: DDL
Truth First, or Why You Should Mostly Implement Database First Designs
In this much overdue article, I will explain why I think that in almost all cases, you should implement a "database first" design in your application's data models, rather than a "Java first" design (or whatever your client language is), the latter approach leading to a long road of pain and suffering, once your project … Continue reading Truth First, or Why You Should Mostly Implement Database First Designs
SQL Server ALTER TABLE SET DEFAULT
Most databases that support default values on their column DDL, it is also possible to actually alter that default. An Oracle example: CREATE TABLE t ( val NUMBER(7) DEFAULT 1 NOT NULL ); -- Oops, wrong default, let us change it ALTER TABLE t MODIFY val DEFAULT -1; -- Now that is better Unfortunately, this … Continue reading SQL Server ALTER TABLE SET DEFAULT
jOOQ Newsletter: February 26, 2014
Subscribe to the newsletter here Tweet of the Day Our followers, users and customers are shouting their love for jOOQ to the world. Here are: Ben Hood who is constantly discovering new useful features in jOOQ. https://twitter.com/0x6e6562/status/436753836540452864 Antoine Comte who is skipping MyBatis to jump directly to jOOQ (in French) https://twitter.com/comte_a/status/433699690069385216 Both guys are absolutely right, of … Continue reading jOOQ Newsletter: February 26, 2014
Liquibase for DB Migrations
I have just now discovered a very nice-looking tool for database migrations: Liquibase https://www.liquibase.org/ With Liquibase, you can model your DB increments as XML files that will translate to as many as 13 different databases. A sample DB increment (taken from the Liquibase manual): property='vat' ...and so on. I guess it's about time to contact … Continue reading Liquibase for DB Migrations