Quick tip of the day:
The Future of Big Data
With some guidance, you can craft a data platform that is right for your organization’s needs and gets the most return from your data capital.
Use Gradle plugins to package up functionality for easy reuse. For example, we developed a simple “database” plugin to handle the common tasks associated with building and upgrading a database. Things like:
- build – create a new database from scratch. Runs the CREATE DATABASE and sqlcmd’s the full DDL
- upgrade – checks the current version, looks for (and generates from the model if needed) and upgrade script, and runs it.
- clean – DROP DATABASE – get ready for something new.
- load – part of “build”, load static initial data from CSV files into the newly created database structure.
Now, all we do to enable a database in our environment is add a build.gradle file to the database directory (with ddl/, sp/, and data/ subdirectories) with:
apply plugin: 'Database'
Away we go!
