http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agileDatabases/ agileDatabase Thu, 04 Oct 2012 19:29:46 GMT ayo.akinyemi http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agileDatabases/message/2744 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agileDatabases/message/2744 We are trying to move away from views, the idea of activity_log_[week of year] sounds tempting, but that would just be creating so many activity logs tables in Thu, 04 Oct 2012 19:29:43 GMT bretweinraub http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agileDatabases/message/2743 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agileDatabases/message/2743 Did I miss something? If we are "rotating" logs, then we are writing to flat files. Last time I checked the amount of maintenance to recreate a view does not Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:09:49 GMT Scott Ambler http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agileDatabases/message/2742 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agileDatabases/message/2742 Sounds like a fair bit of continuing maintenance to me.  I tend to avoid stuff like that because a few years down the road these sorts of strategies tend to Wed, 03 Oct 2012 08:26:34 GMT Willem Bogaerts http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agileDatabases/message/2741 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agileDatabases/message/2741 ... I wrote my own experiences with SQL scripts and version control in a howto: http://www.howtoforge.com/node/4833 If focuses on MySQL, but the principle Wed, 03 Oct 2012 02:32:43 GMT deddy205ar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agileDatabases/message/2740 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agileDatabases/message/2740 Gabe - ... Fascinating question. I am only aware of SCM (software configuration management) tools that deal with source code changes. Now that you ask, I have Tue, 02 Oct 2012 14:31:59 GMT BW http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agileDatabases/message/2739 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agileDatabases/message/2739 why not write to a table called activity_log_[week of year] ? like activity_log_2012_23 # the 23rd week of 2012 you can then create a view that joined up the Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:51:06 GMT alexander_karmanov http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agileDatabases/message/2738 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agileDatabases/message/2738 Well, I do it through a custom set of scripts which I built. Flyway seems to be doing something similar to what I do. The idea is simply to have all the Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:50:57 GMT Berke Sokhan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agileDatabases/message/2737 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agileDatabases/message/2737 Plus, you should consider dividing one big table to seperated tables, that each one is a shadow of the original table with additional column like change action Fri, 28 Sep 2012 02:11:01 GMT timander37 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agileDatabases/message/2736 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agileDatabases/message/2736 We use Microsoft SQL Server with the jTDS JDBC driver. The important features that I'm looking for are: Schema Versioning Plain SQL migrations Maven Plugin Fri, 28 Sep 2012 02:10:58 GMT timander37 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agileDatabases/message/2735 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agileDatabases/message/2735 I'm very interested in this topic too. There seems to be a sub-set of database changes dealing with configuration data that we don't want to treat as Thu, 27 Sep 2012 15:55:42 GMT ayo.akinyemi http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agileDatabases/message/2734 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agileDatabases/message/2734 Yes, the ActivityLog table is being used by the application. We do archive the table, and truncate data that are 3 weeks old. Now, we want to be able to Thu, 27 Sep 2012 15:34:18 GMT Pramod Sadalage http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agileDatabases/message/2733 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agileDatabases/message/2733 is the ActivityLog data needed by the application, if its just stored and not used by the application can you write to disk with ASync logging, in java you can Thu, 27 Sep 2012 15:27:18 GMT David Poole http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agileDatabases/message/2732 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agileDatabases/message/2732 If you send stuff to a separate database then make sure that the database is on a separate physical drive or you won't get the performance boost you expect. It Thu, 27 Sep 2012 15:18:30 GMT ayo.akinyemi http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agileDatabases/message/2731 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agileDatabases/message/2731 My team maintains a MySql database that have about 120 tables housed within 1 database. There is an Activity Logs table that records every action all users Thu, 27 Sep 2012 14:48:42 GMT Pramod Sadalage http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agileDatabases/message/2730 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agileDatabases/message/2730 I have used, DbDeploy, Flyway, LiquiBase, DBMaintain, iBatis Migrator, Rails Migrations All of them are good for different reasons. So can you tell us some of