Forewords
A decade ago refactoring was a word only known to a few people, mostly in the Smalltalk community. It’s been wonderful to watch more and more people learn how to use refactoring to modify working code in a disciplined and effective manner. As a result many people now see code refactoring as an essential part of software development.
I live in the world of enterprise applications, and a big part of enterprise application development is working with databases. In my original book on refactoring, I picked out databases as a major problem area in refactoring because refactoring databases introduces a new set of problems. These problems are exacerbated by the sad division that’s developed in the enterprise software world where database ...
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