Technical debt is an inevitable byproduct of software development as complexity grows. However, unlike stateless application code, the stateful nature of databases makes this debt far easier to accumulate and significantly harder to pay off, sometimes taking weeks and even months of planning and execution.
Existing data creates massive inertia against change, and having different sets of data in different environments, from development to production, makes problems hard to predict. Add in the painful but unavoidable layers of compliance and…
