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Proving the Contract Holds: Testing Database Code

2026-06-30 · by Hannah Vernon · in Data Architecture

The ended with a contract smoke test: a query that fails the build if a published view loses a promised column or changes a promised type. That test is worth having, and it is not…

Putting the Contract Under CI/CD: Database Deployments You Can Trust

2026-06-29 · by Hannah Vernon · in Data Architecture

So far in this series the database has a published interface (the ) and a read surface that you keep stable even when an wants to bind straight to your tables. Both of those are…

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