https://www.shafiq.in/tags/integration/ Recent content in Integration on Shafiq Alibhai Hugo en-GB 2009-2026 All rights reserved. Sat, 18 Sep 2010 07:19:26 +0000 https://www.shafiq.in/blog/database-integration--points-to-keep-in-mind/ Sat, 18 Sep 2010 07:19:26 +0000 https://www.shafiq.in/blog/database-integration--points-to-keep-in-mind/ <p><strong>Have a single authoritative source for your schema.</strong> Everyone should know where the official schema lives. You should be able to walk up to a fresh machine, pull from source control, build, and run a simple tool to set up the database. Ideally the build process handles it automatically.</p> <p><strong>Version your database.</strong> The goal is to propagate changes from development to test to production in a controlled way. You should also be able to recreate the database at any point in time. If someone reports a bug in build 20100612.1, you need to reproduce the exact database state from that build.</p>