Project Overview

Most of my formal methods examples deal with concurrency, because time is evil and I hate it. While FM is very effective for that, it gives people a limited sense of how flexible these tools are.

Instead of a distributed system, we’re going to do something different. Lots of business apps store their conceptual model in a relational database. If you need to change the structure of the data, you need to convert all of the stored data to the new format. This is a data migration. Migrations are risky business because they involve changing a large amount of state at once. They’re also often irreversible, and if something goes wrong you cannot easily undo the migration.

Contributors

Hillel Wayne

Relevant Links

Formally Modelling Database Migrations