Now, for the first time, leading agile methodologies Scott Ambler and renowned consultant Pramodkumar Sadalage introduce powerful refactoring techniques specifically designed for database systems. Ambler and Sadalage show how small changes to table structures, data, stored procedures, and triggers can significantly enhance virtually any database design? Without changing the semantics. You? Will learn how to develop a database schema in step with source code and become much more effective in projects relying on repetitive, agile methodology?. Comprehensive guide and reference helps you overcome the practical obstacles to refactoring real-world databases by covering every fundamental concept underlying database refactoring. The second part of this book systematically covers five major categories of database refactorings. This book provides a wide range of examples built with Oracle and Java and easily adaptable to other languages, like C #, C + +, or VB.NET, and other databases, such as DB2, SQL Server, MySQL, and Sybase. Using this book and examples of techniques s,? You can reduce waste, rework, risk, and cost and build database systems capable of developing smoothly, far into the future?.