Tag Archives: deployment

What’s Your Smoke Test?

Posted on August 19, 2016 by way0utwest

Many DBAs and operational staff regularly stress over software deployments to production systems. Even when the administrator has built and tested the deployment scripts, there is still a nagging fear that something will be missed, incurring downtime for systems. I … Continue reading →

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Mission Critical Deployments

Posted on August 17, 2015 by way0utwest

Talk about a lot of pressure to get a software deployment correct. A software install on an Airbus airplane resulted in a file containing parameters being wiped. This error caused (apparently) an airplane to crash when three engines cut off in … Continue reading →

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Monitoring After Deployment

Posted on April 17, 2015 by way0utwest

Deployments of database and application changes have tended to be stressful in my career. I’ve seen the actual deployment of changes fail, installation programs crash, the startup of an application error out, or the famous blue screen of death from … Continue reading →

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State v Migrations

Posted on April 9, 2015 by way0utwest

Most people work in evolutionary databases. By that I mean a database where you have some schema, and over time you are altering that schema. You might be adding columns to tables or views, changing stored procedure or function code, … Continue reading →

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