Developer priorities

- [Instructor] So how can database professionals…make developers happy?…Well software development is an ever changing process…with Sprint, stand ups and the Agile methodology…leading to frequent changes in applications…and continuous integration and continuous deployment.…What developers really want in their database platform…is some stability.…First of all they would like it to be up all the time.…No one likes surprise down time.…Also the developers want that environment…to perform consistency.…I've talked with developers about this…who say they'd rather have a server platform…that was consistently slow then variable.…

It's simply easy to plan for.…If you know a query is always going to take three seconds…you can build that into your app,…but if sometimes it runs in one millisecond…and sometimes it runs in 10 seconds…then your app can't handle it as well.…So this means if you're a DBA you want to ensure…that statistics are kept up to date,…index fragmentation is managed…so that your day to day performance…and execution times are consistent.…