Re: Best practices

Niall Litchfield wrote:

> I am in the process if reviewing and rewriting our Database Policies
> documentation. I was wondering if there are any useful best
> practices/policies documents out there in internet land that might be useful
> to me.
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> Niall Litchfield
> Oracle DBA
> Audit Commission UK
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> Please include version and platform
> and SQL where applicable
> It makes life easier and increases the
> likelihood of a good answer
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Likely but I would like to propose my favorite in case you don't find it elsewhere.

1. No piece of code, whether new or upgrade or bug fix goes into production without going through a quality control step in which the testers are independent of the department that generated the code.
2. No piece of code, whether new or upgrade or bug fix goes into testing without going through a code review conducted by senior developers and attended by all developers on the project.
3. No project produces any piece of code without the project having a lead that is truly a senior developer with the language being used and in the environment in which it will be deployed.

These three alone would eliminate 80%+ of the mistakes I see.

Daniel Morgan Received on Fri Jun 28 2002 - 10:51:45 CDT