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an organized collection of data, typically organized to model relevant aspects of reality, in a way that supports processes requiring this information.

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QA testing - Database privileges

reviewed by DBA and/or developers, because (depending of the design of your system) might be easy to make manual changes which are not possible to do when using the system "correctly" using services, and database
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Using TDD when developing a database schema?

TDD is for testing application. DB schema is not an application and you cannot test it per se. You can test application which uses that schema. Tests will help you determine if your application is s …
Peter M. - stands for Monica's user avatar
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How to create unit tests for Web app with a database

Database shared between tests is a common obstacle. One way ("orthodox") is to insist that unit test should NOT test database (just exercise the tested library), and mock the DB interface. … Another way ("synthetic") is to use real database, even if such test are not strictly a unit test, but low-level integration tests. …
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Using a different database engine for testing

Using a different database engine makes sense only if you use just a bland simple SQL, avoiding any performance-enhancing tricks your chosen database provides. … What we do is that for testing, we use the same engine but separate, much smaller dataset (which fits in RAM, with caching), which makes tests to run somewhat faster than full production database. …
Peter M. - stands for Monica's user avatar
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Can a proportionately scaled down testing environment find performance load issues?

Test environment will NOT scale proportionally. But what you can do is: make test environment as similar to PROD as you possibly can (with possibly less servers, that's what we do: have about half …
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