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Ask HN: How do you manage direct updates to databases in a production system
16 by dmundhra | 16 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN! When you have a production system running, every now and then there are requirements to made a DB update because of some bug in the code, or for some use cases which were not thought of earlier. How do you handle such updates? The common way I know is the access is given to a small number of trusted people who make the updates. Are there any other ways or best practices such that the small set of people don't end up becoming bottlenecks, apart from the potential risk of abuse of trust.

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