As opposed to the project-based organizational structure, where a dedicated team carries out a single dedicated project, the team-based structure involves two or more teams working on the same project—or, in other cases, it's a single team handling multiple projects.

This approach fully displays the flexibility of a team that can switch between projects and apply their skills in a broader way. Moreover, if one team runs multiple projects for the same client, they get deeper insights into the subject matter of the client's business-the precious knowledge that yields more focused decisions.

Still, there are always risks and potential issues to consider. And if we're talking database projects, some of them are as follows:
  • Multiple teams must be kept in sync, which drastically increases the complexity of management
  • Unstandardized workflow prevents teams from staying on the same page
  • Absence of version control increases the risk of error
  • Unsynchronized collaboration between teams causes lower individual performance
  • There is laborious manual work with tasks that could otherwise be automated
However, there is nothing that can't be optimized.

The advantages of standardized team-based development in database projects

Let's have a look at what can be standardized, automated, and generally improved in the routine process of database development.

Write clean code

Routine SQL coding becomes faster and more precise with context-aware object suggestions, statement completion, and instant syntax check.
Write clean code
Find and eliminate errors in code

Find and eliminate errors in code

Debugging helps observe and analyze the runtime behavior of database objects, as well as locate and eliminate logic errors in queries, scripts, stored procedures, triggers, and functions.

Establish a unified coding style

Properly adopted formatting standards make code readable and consistent for every teammate. Moreover, it will be easier for newcomers to effectively blend in.
Establish a unified coding style
Carry out safe refactoring

Carry out safe refactoring

Refactoring makes it easy to rename tables, columns, stored procedures, and functions with automatic correction of references to the renamed objects.

Manage changes with version control

Effective teamwork on a single database-centered software product is impossible without centralized version control of schemas and static table data.
Manage changes with version control
Reuse code blocks

Reuse code blocks

The use of predefined and custom snippets helps SQL developers produce even more output. Or, alternatively, it helps handle the required scope much faster.

Get full database documentation

Documentation delivers extensive information on database structure, object types and properties, and inter-object dependencies, as well as DDL code.
Get full database documentation
Automate unit testing

Automate unit testing

Unit tests can be written in regular T-SQL, launched in isolation so as not to affect actual databases, and effortlessly automated from the command line.
Facilitate code deployment

Facilitate code deployment

DevOps-based automation of development processes streamlines all operations up to code migration and deployment to multiple environments.

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Supported database management systems

The dbForge product line focuses on the four major database systems. For each of them, we offer a feature-rich independent IDE, which covers a variety of database development and administration tasks, as well as minor standalone applications and add-ins with a narrow focus (including, but not limited to fast SQL coding, visual query building, and database comparison). Alternatively, we can offer a four-in-one solution for all of these database systems. With dbForge products, you will be versatile and productive at once.

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