Introduction An incremental software development process requires an incremental database migration strategy. I remember working on an enterprise application where the hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto was the default data migration tool. Updating the production environment required intensive preparation and the migration scripts were only created on-the-spot. An unforeseen error could have led production data corruption. Incremental updates to the rescue The incremental database update is a technical feature that needs to be addressed in the very first application development iterations. We used to develop our own custom data migration implementations and spending time on writing/supporting… Read More