I did a gig whereby the databases were HUGE changing the schema was aways avoided unless it was deemed it would pay for itself. i.e. the accompanying feature wa

I did a gig whereby the databases were HUGE changing the schema was aways avoided unless it was deemed it would pay for itself. i.e. the accompanying feature warranted a change and to what degree. To reduce entropy a full time DBA would tweak indexes and work with each component team to release db refactoring with the teams. I don't think this is an approach I would recommend but if your gig is a giant enterprisey shop that manages risk far to conservatively it's a reasonable half-measure. CD is an aspiration for a lot of shops and getting there is a cautious tale of lots of small victories and earning the trust of the decision makers. Sometimes that means: > designing around it