I gave a presentation on zero downtime database migrations at a devops conference in Boston in November 2012. Slides are here: http://www.completefusion.com/zer

I gave a presentation on zero downtime database migrations at a devops conference in Boston in November 2012. Slides are here: http://www.completefusion.com/zero-downtime-deployments-with-mysql/ http://www.completefusion.com/zero-downtime-deployments-with... I also wrote a more detailed post about it for SysAdvent 2012 - http://sysadvent.blogspot.com/2012/12/day-3-zero-downtime-mysql-schema-changes.html http://sysadvent.blogspot.com/2012/12/day-3-zero-downtime-my...