Databases age gracelessly. They wear battle scars of company pivots, engineering mistakes, performance problems, legacy data, etc.

In this talk, we'll mostly cover how to identify, treat, and triage the biggest quality-of-life improvements available in modern databases, e.g. migrations, indexing, consolidation, schema redesign, query search/replace, views, procedures, permissions, seed data.

We'll also explore how to implement improvements via painless data migrations while preserving development velocity.