Agile Database Techniques: Effective Strategies for the Agile Software Developer

Introduction

An Agile Introduction: This is a really good book. Buy it. Read it. Spread the word.

Since the early 1990s, I've been working with both object and relational database (RDB) technologies to build business applications, and since the mid-1990s I've done a fair bit of writing on the subject. These writings have appeared in Software Development (www.sdmagazine.com), in several of my books (in particular Building Object Applications That Work and The Object Primer), and on my personal Web site (www.ambysoft.com). The two white papers at my site, one on mapping objects to RDBs and the other describing the design of a persistence layer, have proven to be incredibly popular, with several hundred thousand downloads over the years. The persistence layer paper has even been used as the basis for several open source products. Although it's been very rewarding for me to share my ideas through these writings, I never took the time to collect this work in one place, nor have I written everything that I have to say about the topic. This book rectifies this situation.

As a consultant, I've worked with object and data professionals, their related technologies, and of course their techniques. In doing so, I've worked in traditional environments that take a near-serial approach to development as well as more modern environments that take an agile and evolutionary approach to development. Over time, I've worked on many different project teams in various roles. Data-oriented issues were important, ...